Emergency Medical Technicians

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The ER, 50 Years on — Dec 31, 2010

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

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Where Americans Get Acute Care: Increasingly, It's Not at Their Doctor's Office — Aug 31, 2010

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).

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The Longitudinal Study of Turnover and the Cost of Turnover in EMS — Dec 31, 2009

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

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Developing Nonlinear Queuing Regressions to Increase Emergency Department Patient Safety: Approximating Reneging with Balking — Dec 31, 2009

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.

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The Base of the Pyramid — Dec 31, 2009

Simple injury prevention measures can save both money and lives.

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Waiting Room Medicine: Has It Really Come to This? — Dec 31, 2009

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.

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