Health Policy
September 17, 2012 | Feature/Topic
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What Drives Frequent Emergency Department Use in an Integrated Health System? National Data From the Veterans Health Administration
April 11, 2013 | Journal Article
The sociodemographic and clinical factors associated with frequent ED use within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) are examined in this study.
Emergency Department Utilization and Capacity
July 1, 2009 | Issue Brief/Report
This synthesis describes what is known, and importantly what is not known, about hospital EDs in the United States. This report addresses key questions about the performance and sustainability of hospital EDs.
Prediction of Critical Illness During Out-of-Hospital Emergency Care
August 18, 2010 | Journal Article
In a retrospective study of emergency patients without traumatic injury or cardiac arrest, researchers were able to develop a critical illness score to reasonably predict which patients would require services of a regional critical care center.
Emergency Department Information System Adoption in the United States
May 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Emergency physician Adam Landman—a former corporate consultant with a background in information systems—is eager to re-enter the digital age. He is tired of writing scripts, thumbing through paper records and trying to decipher his colleagues’ handw ...
Uninsured Adults Presenting to US Emergency Departments
October 22, 2008 | Journal Article
Common assumptions made in published literature about uninsured patients that present to emergency departments (EDs) are often not supported by data, or apply to both uninsured and insured ED patients.
Duration of Resuscitation Efforts and Survival After in-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
September 1, 2012 | Journal Article
This study demonstrates that clinical practice still varies greatly concerning the most beneficial duration of resuscitation efforts after in-hospital cardiac arrest. Using the Get With The Guidelines—Resuscitation registry, this study including 64, ...
Glucose Variability and Mortality in Patients Hospitalized
July 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Critically ill patients (other than heart attack patients) may be more susceptible to the effects of fluctuating glucose levels.
When Crossing the Street is the Difference Between Life and Death
October 25, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
What role does the racial and socioeconomic composition of a neighborhood have on an individual’s likelihood of receiving life-saving bystander CPR?
Urgency of Emergency Department Visits by Children with Sickle Cell Disease
July 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Visits to the emergency department by children with sickle cell disease and diabetes are substantially more likely to be highly urgent than those by children with asthma.
Hospital Determinants of Emergency Department Left Without Being Seen Rates
July 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Lower socioeconomic status of patients and certain hospital structural characteristics make it more likely that people leave the emergency department without being seen.