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For many months, the buzz among health care administrators and policy-makers has been all about accountable care organizations (ACOs), an emerging payment and delivery model that many hope will put an end to the fragmented nature of America's health care system while also bringing down costs.
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If improved care coordination is integral to bending the health care cost curve, then the interchange between emergency physicians and primary care practitioners (PCPs) is in need of significant improvement, according to a new study on this issue conducted by the Washington, DC-based Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) for the nonprofit National Institute for Health Care Reform (NIHCR).
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To say our specialty has a full plate is an understatement. We are facing down a number of issues that are guaranteed to transition us to a new world.
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Sumner Regional Medical Center in Gallatin, TN, offers good evidence that quick-turnarounds are indeed possible when you have motivated staff.
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A patient who is actively engaged in his or her own care can provide a wealth of information to a busy ED provider who lacks ready access to medical-record information.
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Resuscitation in the pregnant patient is an uncommon occurrence, estimated at 1 in 30,000 deliveries, yet it is unique in its potential to save not one, but two lives.
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The neonatal population (birth to 1 month of age) provides a unique and difficult challenge for diagnosis and treatment in the emergency department, and a systematic approach is critical to allow for rapid diagnosis and subsequent therapy in the setting of a potentially sick neonate.
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Although the diagnosis of cancer in childhood is relatively rare, with an annual incidence of 165 cases per million,
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If your ED patient sustained a few rib fractures, would you expect this to lead to rapid respiratory decompensation, pneumonia, and death? Minor injuries can have profound effects in the elderly, warns Avery Nathens, MD, division head of trauma and general surgery at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, Canada.
