[HTML][HTML] Emergency medicine history and expansion into the future: a narrative review

MR Huecker, J Shreffler, M Platt, D O'Brien… - Western Journal of …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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 …

Patient Assignment Models in the Emergency Department.

NR Hodgson, SJ Traub - Emergency Medicine Clinics of North …, 2020 - europepmc.org
Early assignment of patients to specific treatment teams improves length of stay, rate of
patients leaving without being seen, patient satisfaction, and resident education. Multiple …

Does what happens in the ED stay in the ED? The effects of emergency department physician workload on post-ED care use

M Soltani, RJ Batt, H Bavafa… - … & Service Operations …, 2022 - pubsonline.informs.org
Problem definition: We study the effects of emergency department (ED) physician workload
on healthcare system utilization after the patient leaves the ED. Further, we explore the …

[HTML][HTML] Resource utilization in non-academic emergency departments with advanced practice providers

A Aledhaim, A Walker, R Vesselinov… - Western Journal of …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Methods In this five-year retrospective secondary data analysis of the Emergency
Department Benchmarking Alliance (EDBA), we compared resource utilization rates in EDs …

Risk factors associated with hospital admission in COVID-19 patients initially admitted to an observation unit

FM Russell, A Wang, RR Ehrman, J Jacobs… - The American Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background No set guidelines to guide disposition decisions from the emergency
department (ED) in patients with COVID-19 exist. Our goal was to determine characteristics …

Variation in batch ordering of imaging tests in the emergency department and the impact on care delivery

JC Jameson, S Saghafian, RS Huckman… - Health Services …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives To examine heterogeneity in physician batch ordering practices and measure the
associations between a physician's tendency to batch order imaging tests on patient …

Emergency department operations: an overview

JW Joseph, BA White - Emergency Medicine Clinics, 2020 - emed.theclinics.com
“Why is this taking so long?” It is a question that patients often ask in the emergency
department (ED), yet, it is also a question that emergency physicians often find themselves …

Practice as you teach: comparing ordering practices between shared and physician-only visits in academically affiliated community emergency departments

PS Antkowiak, T Lee, DT Chiu, B Stenson… - The Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Considerable variability exists in emergency physicians'(EPs) rates of resource
utilization, which may cluster in distinct patterns. However, previous studies have focused on …

Dynamic assignment of patients to primary and secondary inpatient units: Is patience a virtue?

S Saghafian, D Kilinc, SJ Traub - HKS Faculty Research Working …, 2022 - dash.harvard.edu
Various hospitals in the US and around the world suffer from the well-known problem of
Emergency Department (ED) overcrowding, which prevents them from serving their patients …

Not all testers are admitters: an analysis of emergency physician resource utilization and consultation rates

PS Antkowiak, T Lee, DT Chiu, BA Stenson… - The Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background: Variability exists in emergency physician (EP) resource utilization as measured
by ordering practices, rate of consultation, and propensity to admit patients. Objective: To …