Part 1. Frameworks for Record Linkage in Emergency
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Emergency care is one of the cornerstone parts of the world health organization’s action plan. Rapid response and immediate care are considered in agile emergency care. Artificial intelligence (AI) and informatics have been applied to fulfill these ...Open Access 3–16
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The 21st century has seen an enormous growth in emergency medical services (EMS) information technology systems, with corresponding accumulation of large volumes of data. Despite this growth, integration efforts between EMS-based systems and electronic ...Open Access 17–26
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A significant number of problems in emergency care are caused by a lack of provider access to pre-existing patient information at the point of care. Medical Emergency Datasets (MEDs) are brief summarizations of an individual’s medical history, providing ...Open Access 27–35
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The rapid development of elderly population is changing demographics in Europe and North America and imposes barriers to healthcare systems that may reduce the quality of service. Telemedicine is a potential solution supporting the real-time and remote ...Open Access 39–61
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Chemical, analytical and biological laboratories use a variety of different solvents and gases. Many of these compounds are harmful or even toxic to laboratory personnel. Permanent monitoring of the air quality is therefore of great importance regarding ...Open Access 62–87
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Early Warning Scores (EWSs) systems support the timely detection of patient deterioration and rapid response of the care team. Due to the mobility nature of healthcare settings, there has been a growing tendency to use mobile-based devices in these ...Open Access 88–102
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Social Media and the Internet of Things are nowadays full and strong components of day-to-day life worldwide. Both allow communicating with others 24 hours a day, 7 days a week without distance limitations. During the last decade, on-site citizens have ...Open Access 105–117
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The prediction of the demography of Spain shows that Spain will experience an aging population soon. Aging is a condition of chronic disease resulting in overcrowding Emergency Department. Despite chronic diseases, Covid-19 became a serious issue for ...Open Access 118–130
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The World Health Organization (WHO) announced the first-ever World Patient Safety Day on September 17, 2019, which remarks a global campaign to create an awareness of patient safety and urges people to show their commitment to making healthcare safer. ...Open Access 133–150
On Appropriate Evaluation Methodologies in the Context of Using Both Accident and
Health Record Data
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Accident and emergency informatics has become a new approach to accident research in the era of digitization, where it has become realistic to integrate data recorded at accident sites with data in electronic health records of patients. This chapter ...Open Access 151–160
