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Emergency care is powerfully aligned with the primary health care agenda as it provides first contact clinical care for those who are acutely ill or injured. Pre-hospital and facility-based emergency care is a high impact and cost-effective form of secondary prevention.
- 16 June 2012 Guidelines for Essential Trauma Care
The Guidelines for essential trauma care seek to set...
- Who Tools for Strengthening Emergency Care Systems
WHO has created a suite of tools and resources that can be...
- Who Medical Emergency Checklist
Overview . The WHO Medical Emergency Checklist is a modified...
- Quality of Care
Equitable – providing care that does not vary in quality on...
- Who International Registry for Trauma and Emergency Care
Systematic facility-based data collection on acute illness...
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- ICRC Basic Emergency Care
Overview . Developed by WHO and ICRC, in collaboration with...
- Technical Specifications
This WHO-IAEA joint publication takes its origin from a...
- 16 June 2012 Guidelines for Essential Trauma Care
2 paź 2024 · All around the world, acutely ill and injured people seek care every day. Frontline providers manage children and adults with medical, surgical and obstetric emergencies, including injuries and infections, heart attacks and strokes, asthma and acute complications of pregnancy.
21 wrz 2021 · Essential Emergency and Critical Care (EECC) has been devised as the care that should be provided to all critically ill patients in all hospitals in the world. EECC includes the effective care of low cost and low complexity for the identification and treatment of critically ill patients across all medical specialties.
24 sty 2024 · Achieving high rates of correct diagnosis and appropriate treatment is a hallmark of quality in emergency care, significantly impacting patient satisfaction, safety, and overall ED efficiency. Continuous monitoring and analysis of these indicators are essential for ongoing quality improvement in emergency care .
11 sie 2022 · Patient-centered care (PCC) is an emerging priority in many healthcare settings but lacks clarity in the emergency department (ED). It is of interest to know what PCC practices are most important to patients to better their experience.
The WHO Emergency Care Toolkit (ECT) is an open access bundle of interventions, developed to be implemented in emergency units within hospitals, particularly in resource limited settings. The main aim of the ECT is to support systematic care of the acutely ill and injured within hospitals.
Emergency care is an essential element of universal health coverage, responding to a range of acute conditions in children and adults, including injuries, infections, acute exacerbations of noncommunicable diseases, and complications of pregnancy.