Emergency Department Visits news from FierceHealthcare
NewsAdd NPs to reduce emergency visits in half, coordinate care
Hospitals trying to reduce emergency department (ED) crowding should look to new research from Loyola University Health System (LUHS), which found that adding a nurse practitioner (NP) to staff can Read more...
Modest hospitalist cost savings offset by ED visits, readmissions
Despite the touted cost savings of the model, hospitalist care could be taxing Medicare resources, according to a new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Previous studies and Read more...
Low-income patients flood rural EDs
Although rural areas typically suffer from limited access to emergency care, the emergency departments (ED) that are available experience a lot of activity, with most of it from low-income patients. Read more...
Universal coverage fails to reduce ER visits
To the dismay of supporters of Massachusetts's healthcare reform law, universal coverage hasn't affected the number of emergency room visits, according to a study published in the Annals of Emergency Read more...
GAO looks at ways to reduce, divert ED use
Three strategies--focusing on emergency department (ED) diversion, care coordination and accessibility of services--could help reduce ED use, according to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) Read more...
Hospitals reduce ED visits by redirecting non-urgent patients
The number of emergency rooms visits and the time it takes to get treated at the ED continue to climb. So some hospitals are redirecting people with less-urgent issues to alternate healthcare Read more...
100 million ED visits could be handled elsewhere
An estimated 17 to 27 percent of all emergency department visits for non-emergency care--or, about 104 million visits--could have occurred elsewhere, according to an article recently published in Read more...
Follow-up care for kids who attempt suicide varies by drug of choice
Suicide attempts make up 9 percent of drug-related hospital emergency department visits by adolescents, according to studies conducted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Read more...
Study: Homeless more likely to use ambulance
A new study concludes that homeless people are more likely than other patients to arrive at U.S. hospitals by ambulance, and more than twice as likely than other patients to be uninsured. The study, Read more...
HHS: One-fifth of ED visits are by uninsured patients
Here's some data to chew on: According to HHS research, roughly one-fifth of all 120 million emergency department visits in 2006 were by uninsured persons. The data, while probably drawn on realistic Read more...
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