Emergency medicine (EM) has advanced profoundly since its specialty recognition in 1979.
As diagnosis and treatment changes, payment restructures and best practices evolve. 1 We …

Study objective We describe the current US emergency medicine workforce in terms of
clinician type and examine rural and urban emergency medicine workforce differences …

Background Due to the high burden of mortality from acute communicable and non-
communicable diseases, emergency department's mortality has become one of the major …

Background Emergency care at a primary health care (PHC) level must be strengthened to
reduce overall mortality and morbidity in any country. Developing recommendations for …

The current opioid crisis has necessitated timely, grassroots social entrepreneurship from
stakeholders involved in the substance-use disorder and recovery fields. One such …

Methods We implemented a set of commonly used methods for increasing ED efficiency with
an innovative approach over 45 months. Our intervention involved seven parts comprised of …

Equitable distribution of health services between areas is still a problem in various countries.
Even in developed countries. This condition also applies to the utilization of healthcare …

Importance Emergency department (ED) visits are common and increasing. Whether
outcomes associated with care in the ED are improving over time is largely unknown to date …

Purpose To characterize performance among ED sites participating in the Emergency
Quality Network (E-QUAL) Avoidable Imaging Initiative for clinical targets on the American …

Objectives: Rural residents comprise approximately 15% of the United States population.
They face challenges in accessing and using a health care system that is not structured to …