title: Streamlining Pediatric Emergency Medicine at a Tertiary-care Hospital of a Low- to Middle-income Country.
abstract: The factors of integral importance to run any pediatric emergency department efficiently are the ability to process a high volume of patients quickly and a sensitive triage system that identifies the sickest children. Achieving these aims in a low- to middle-income country setting is more complex as a result of scarce resources and data on which to base systems. In this article, we discuss existing models of streamlining pediatric emergency department services that are most applicable to resource-limited countries, and present suggestions for streamlining pediatric emergency care in such countries.
authors.affiliation: Departments of #Biological and Biomedical Sciences, and *Emergency Medicine, Paediatrics and Child Health , The Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH), Karachi, Pakistan; and Department of Pediatrics, Salisbury District Hospital, Wiltshire, UK. Correspondence to: Dr Asad Mian, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Paediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Stadium Road PO Box 3500, Karachi 74800, Pakistan. asad.mian@aku.edu.
authors.forename: Salima Ahmed
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Bhimani
authors.forename: Nick
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.forename: Asad I
authors.initials: AI
authors.lastname: Mian
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000379:methods*; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D006801:Humans; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000379:methods*; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D062606:Tertiary Care Centers