Michael Kamali
University of Rochester
15 Papers
87 Citations
Michael Kamali is an academic researcher from University of Rochester. The author has contributed to research in topics: Emergency department & Triage. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 15 publications. Previous affiliations of Michael Kamali include University of Rochester Medical Center.
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Papers
Predictors of patient length of stay in 9 emergency departments
Jennifer L. Wiler,Daniel A. Handel,Adit A. Ginde,Dominik Aronsky,Nicholas Genes,Jeffrey L. Hackman,Joshua A. Hilton,Ula Hwang,Michael Kamali,Jesse M. Pines,Emilie S. Powell,Medhi Sattarian,Rongwei Fu +12 more
TL;DR: In this article, a multicenter study identified factors associated with increased length of stay (LOS) in emergency departments, including higher percentage of discharged and eloped patients, more hours on ambulance diversion, and weekday (vs weekend) of patient presentation.
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Emergency department waiting room: many requests, many insured and many primary care physician referrals
TL;DR: Providing patients with appropriate reasons for the wait, an accurate estimate of waiting time and creating separate areas to examine minor illness/injuries would increase patient satisfaction within this population subset.
When to Use Provider Triage in Emergency Departments
TL;DR: This paper studies triage decisions in emergency departments and provides a general procedure for determining when to apply provider triage based on operational and financial considerations using a steady-state, many-server fluid approximation and shows that the proposed solution methodology is asymptotically optimal under a many- server asymPTotic regime.
Pregabalin and paradoxical reaction of seizures in a large overdose
Giles W. Slocum,Rachel F. Schult,Rachel M. Gorodetsky,Timothy J. Wiegand,Michael Kamali,Nicole M. Acquisto +5 more
- 06 Apr 2018
TL;DR: This is only the third documented case of paradoxical seizure due to a large overdose of pregabalin, and the serum concentration observed is among the highest recorded (58 mcg/mL five hours post-ingestion).
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The initial lateral cervical spine film for the athlete with a suspected neck injury: helmet and shoulder pads on or off?
TL;DR: The objective of this investigation was to determine whether a helmet and shoulder pads interfere with the assessment of the cervical spine on this initial ED radiographic evaluation.
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