Every day across the country, patients wait hours or days in clogged emergency departments for a hospital bed to open—a well-known crisis called boarding. Now, a new study published in JAMA looks more ...
Researchers in the Netherlands have found that about 30% of emergency department visits by patients with chest pain could be avoided if ambulance crews used a high-sensitivity troponin test alongside ...
Surprise medical bills occur when a patient unexpectedly or involuntarily receives care from an out-of-network provider and is billed for the amount not covered by insurance. Past studies were unable ...
In most U.S. emergency departments, patients are admitted in an order based on both the urgency of their condition and when they arrived. But in a new study, Yale researchers found that nearly 29% of ...
Researchers in The Netherlands have found that about 30% of presentations to emergency departments of patients with chest ...
Emergency departments (EDs) in the US treat large numbers of people with opioid use disorder (OUD), but most health systems do not equip EDs to provide OUD care. CA Bridge has supported the ...
Most U.S. hospital emergency departments - lacking staffing, training and equipment - are not fully prepared to care for children. Maximizing their readiness to handle pediatric emergencies would be a ...
To inform intervention development, we assessed for medication changes and patient care needs following treat-and-release Veterans Affairs emergency department visits for chronic ambulatory ...
Chronic diseases are common among emergency department patients, particularly among seniors and those ages 45 to 64, according to a National Health Statistics Report. “Monitoring ED visits made by ...