RAND Research Topic: Emergency Medical Technicians 2012-05-24T14:56:33Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/topics/emergency-medical-technicians.html The ER, 50 Years on http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201100124.html Dec 31, 2010 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. Where Americans Get Acute Care: Increasingly, It's Not at Their Doctor's Office http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201000195.html Aug 31, 2010 Aug 31, 2010 Only 42 percent of the 354 million annual visits in the U.S. for acute care&mdash;treatment for newly arising health problems&mdash;are made to patients' personal physicians. The rest are made to emergency departments (28 percent), specialists (20 percent), or outpatient departments (7 percent). The Longitudinal Study of Turnover and the Cost of Turnover in EMS http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201000102.html Dec 31, 2009 Dec 31, 2009 Annual rates of employee turnover and costs associated with turnover vary widely across types of emergency medical services (EMS) agencies. Developing Nonlinear Queuing Regressions to Increase Emergency Department Patient Safety: Approximating Reneging with Balking http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20100147.html Dec 31, 2009 Dec 31, 2009 <p>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.</p> The Base of the Pyramid http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20100177.html Dec 31, 2009 Dec 31, 2009 Simple injury prevention measures can save both money and lives. Waiting Room Medicine: Has It Really Come to This? http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20100152.html Dec 31, 2009 Dec 31, 2009 <p>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.</p>