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Emergency Physicians' Perceptions and Decision-Making Processes Regarding Patients Presenting with Palpitations

Palpitations are a common emergency department (ED) complaint, yet relatively little research exists on this topic from an emergency care perspective.

May 18, 2015
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Medically Unnecessary Diagnostic Imaging: Emergency Physicians Weigh In

A substantial proportion of advanced imaging studies ordered by emergency physicians may be medically unnecessary. According to a broad survey of emergency medicine professionals, fear of missing a low-probability diagnosis and fear of litigation are perceived as two key contributing factors.

Apr 7, 2015
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Emergency Physician Perceptions of Shared Decision-Making

A substantial proportion of advanced imaging studies ordered by emergency physicians may be medically unnecessary.

Apr 7, 2015
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Making It More Difficult to Sue Physicians for Malpractice May Not Reduce 'Defensive Medicine'

Malpractice reform has been advocated by many experts as a key to reining in health care costs. Three states raised the standard for malpractice in the emergency room to gross negligence, but that did not translate into less-expensive care.

Oct 1, 2014
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The State of Innovative Emergency Medical Service Programs in the United States

The primary objective of this study was to determine how EMS organizations that are piloting patient-centered treatment and transport protocols are approaching the challenges of implementation, reimbursement, and quality assurance.

Jan 1, 2014
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Emergency Care: Then, Now, and Next

Emergency care must become more integrated, regionalized, prevention oriented, and innovative.

Dec 1, 2013
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Giving EMS Flexibility in Transporting Low-Acuity Patients Could Generate Substantial Medicare Savings

If Medicare had the flexibility to reimburse EMS for managing selected 911 calls in ways other than transport to an ED, we estimate that the federal government could save $283–$560 million or more per year, while improving the continuity of patient care.

Dec 1, 2013
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Primary Care Technicians: A Solution to the Primary Care Workforce Gap

Efforts to close the primary care workforce gap typically employ one of three basic strategies: train more primary care physicians; boost the supply of nurse practitioners or physician assistants, or both; or use community health workers to extend the reach of primary care physicians.

Nov 1, 2013
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Lessons from Boston

This commentary explores the reasons why Boston's emergency response to the Marathon bombings was so effective and draws implications for other cities' preparedness efforts.

Jan 1, 2013
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Should Payment Policy Be Changed to Allow a Wider Range of EMS Transport Options?

In light of growing concerns about the high cost of emergency care and heavy use of EDs, assessing EMS transport options should be a high-priority topic for outcomes research.

Jan 1, 2013
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Ordering of CT by Emergency Department Provider Type: Analysis of a Nationally Representative Sample

We provide a descriptive trend analysis of CT studies ordered in U.S. emergency departments by nonphysician health care providers and examine whether there is a significant difference in ordering patterns between nonphysicians and physicians.

Nov 1, 2012
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The Changing Landscape of America's Health Care System and the Value of Emergency Medicine

Emergency medicine is poised as a specialty to respond to health care changes and to lead the charge in transforming a disconnected, inefficient, and costly system.

Jan 1, 2012
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The ER, 50 Years on

The quickest way to assess the strength of a community's hospital systems is to spend a few hours in the emergency department.

Jan 1, 2011
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Where Americans Get Acute Care: Increasingly, It's Not at Their Doctor's Office

Only 42 percent of the 354 million annual visits in the U.S. for acute care—treatment for newly arising health problems—are made to patients' personal physicians. The rest are made to emergency departments (28 percent), specialists (20 percent), or outpatient departments (7 percent).

Sep 1, 2010
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The Base of the Pyramid

Simple injury prevention measures can save both money and lives.

Jan 1, 2010
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Waiting Room Medicine: Has It Really Come to This?

Emergency department physicians are devising an ever-expanding list of workarounds to deal with ED overcrowding, but the author argues that their success in doing so perhaps enables abuse of patients rather than their protection.

Jan 1, 2010
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The Longitudinal Study of Turnover and the Cost of Turnover in EMS

Annual rates of employee turnover and costs associated with turnover vary widely across types of emergency medical services (EMS) agencies.

Jan 1, 2010
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Developing Nonlinear Queuing Regressions to Increase Emergency Department Patient Safety: Approximating Reneging with Balking

Strategic decisionmaking about the capacity of emergency departments should be based on measures of patient safety, such as the number of patients who leave without treatment because of ED crowding.

Jan 1, 2010

RAND Topic:
Emergency Medical Technicians

Topic Synonyms:
EMT;
Paramedics