Biomedical subjects

L Gerson

Publications and source records attributed to L Gerson.

16 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed1996

An emergency medicine approach to violence throughout the life cycle. SAEM Public Health and Education Committee.

This document by the SAEM Public Health and Education Committee outlines the public health impact of interpersonal violence as it pertains to acute emergency care. This paper provides an overview of violence through the life cycle (i.e., child abuse, youth violence, intimate violence, and elderly abuse). It also makes specific recommendations regarding the role emergency physicians can play in reducing violence through medical education, research, surveillance, public education, advocacy, and clinical practice.

Aged↗

PubMed1983

Utilization of a freestanding emergency center by patients with and without private physicians.

We assessed the impact of a freestanding emergency center (FEC) on alternative sources of care for minor illness and injury by comparing patients who named a personal physician with those who did not, with regard to time of arrival and type of complaint (injury vs illness). Of 932 patients attending an Akron, Ohio, FEC during the study period, 71% named a primary care physician. These patients came proportionately more often with injury than did patients without a physician, and also presented more frequently with illness at times when their physicians were typically unavailable. By contrast, there was no distinction between the two groups with respect to time of arrival for treatment of injury. We concluded that the FEC may compete largely with the hospital emergency department in the treatment of patients with minor injury. In the case of patients with illness, the FEC vies with both the emergency department and the private physician.

Adolescent↗

PubMed1979

Fire deaths and drinking: data from the Ontario fire reporting system.

Data on recorded alcohol impairment of 264 victims of fatal fires in Ontario in 1976 are analyzed. Male victims were twice as likely to be impaired as females, and impairment was more common among those under 50 years of age. Alcohol impairment was most often noted in victims of fires at night and on weekends. Overall, 31% of adult victims were reported as alcohol impaired. The Ontario data suggests alcohol involvement in victims was not associated with smoking as a cause of the fire.

Alcohol Drinking↗

PubMed1973