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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A simple consultation during unrelated visits to the emergency room can help patients with high blood pressure—"the silent killer"—manage the condition, even before they experience symptoms, according ...

Emergency department triage reliably identifies patients at immediate risk, although it compresses heterogeneous clinical profiles into a small number of urgency ...

In the chaotic environment of an emergency room, hospital staffers sometimes face the question of whether to use physical restraints when a patient is experiencing a behavioral crisis. Using ...

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 ...