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NewsShorter ER boarding can boost hospital profits
Contrary to traditional thinking, slightly cutting back ER boarding time can improve a patient's health and a hospital's bottom line, concludes a study published online yesterday in the Annals of Read more...
Emergency department directors want to offer more preventive services
Call it mission creep. As the ongoing debate about the proper role of emergency departments rages, it turns out most EDs offer preventive services (90 percent), according to a survey written up in Read more...
Study: Cardiac MRI scans could cut costs by $600 per patient
Hospitals could save nearly $600 per patient if they took a different approach to patients with chest pain in the ER, according to a study published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine. Instead of Read more...
Trend: EDs see more repeat users, elderly
Much of the discussion around health reform has touched on the problem of emergency department overuse and the high costs of this pattern to the system overall. However, the following study suggests Read more...
Study: EDs not seeing patients quickly enough
Emergency departments usually aren't seeing patients in the recommended time frames, with only a small percentage meeting triage targets for patients needing to see a physician promptly, according to Read more...
Emergency physician shortage settling in
The current state of emergency physicians is bad enough, with the 40,000 clinically active emergency doctors far from enough to treat the growing number of patients showing up in the ED. The shortage Read more...
Report: ED visits climb 36 percent over decade
A new report from the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics concludes that there were 119 million emergency room visits in 2006, up 36 percent over the last 10 years. (During the same period, Read more...
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