Dr. Timothy F. Platts-mills M.D.
Emergency Physician
101 Manning Drive Cb#7594 Chapel Hill NC, 27599About
Dr. Timothy Platts-mills practices Emergency Medicine in Chapel Hill, NC. Dr. Platts-mills assesses patients who seek immediate medical attention at any time of day or night. Emergency Medicine Physicians are trained to efficiently work with each patient and situation no matter how acute or life-threatening. Dr. Platts-mills examines patients, determines means of testing, diagnoses conditions, and decides the best treatment methods.
Board Certification
Emergency MedicineAmerican Board of Emergency MedicineABEM
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- A prospective, multi-year analysis of illness and injury during summer travel to arid environments.
- Accuracy of the Emergency Severity Index triage instrument for identifying elder emergency department patients receiving an immediate life-saving intervention.
- Understanding commonly encountered limitations in clinical research: an emergency medicine resident's perspective.
- Delay in spinal cord injury diagnosis due to sedation: a case report.
- Quality of registration for clinical trials published in emergency medicine journals.
- Randomized trials in emergency medicine journals, 2008 to 2011.
- Response to: who receives opioids for acute pain in emergency departments? Considering evidence, patient and provider preferences.
- Increase in older adults reporting mountaineering-related injury or illness in the United States, 1973-2010.
- Evolving prehospital, emergency department, and "inpatient" management models for geriatric emergencies.
- Acute pain management in older adults in the emergency department.
- Challenges of antibiotic prescribing for assisted living residents: perspectives of providers, staff, residents, and family members.
- Shared decision-making in the selection of outpatient analgesics for older individuals in the emergency department.
- Delayed telephone consent in emergency medicine research.
- Side effects from oral opioids in older adults during the first week of treatment for acute musculoskeletal pain.
- Non-publication of large randomized clinical trials: cross sectional analysis.
Awards
- Council of Residency Directors 2007 CORD Academic Excellence Award
- 2009 Socrates Teaching Award, UNC School of Medicine
Professional Memberships
- Member American College of Emergency Physicians
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UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA HOSPITALl
101 MANNING DRIVE CHAPEL HILL NC 27514DUKE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALl
PO BOX 3814 DUMC ERWIN RD DURHAM NC 27710DUKE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALl
PO BOX 3814 DUMC ERWIN RD DURHAM NC 27710UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA HOSPITALl
101 MANNING DRIVE CHAPEL HILL NC 27514