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As health care reform continues to unfold and performance-based payment models make more headway, emergency providers are pushing the boundaries beyond what the market has traditionally expected from this field of expertise.
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The debate raging over whether it is wrong or right for lawmakers to be looking at ways to limit ED utilization may be missing the more important discussion.
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In today's fragmented healthcare world, case managers are so inundated with tasks that care coordination and transition management often suffer, as this case study illustrates.
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In the brave new world of healthcare, what goes right and wrong in patient care cant be blamed on someone else along the continuum of care.
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There has been a lot of talk about the importance of shifting away from process measures to determine quality of care and making more use of outcomes measures.
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As a bioethicist, is your approach too theoretical or removed from the practical issues that face clinicians?
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If an undocumented patient presents to an emergency department, the hospital will likely meet its obligations to stabilize the patient as required by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, but what happens after that?
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There is an enormous disparity between the number of patients with end-stage organ failure and the number of organs available for transplantation, resulting in patients dying on the waiting list, according to Christie P. Thomas, MD, professor in the Division of Nephrology at University of Iowa Health Care in Iowa City and chair of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Networks (OPTN) Living Donor Committee.
