Hypertensive Urgency: An Emergency Department Pipeline to Primary Care Pilot Study

Connecting Emergency Department Patients to Primary Care.

BACKGROUND Inappropriate emergency department (ED) use among Medicaid enrollees is considered a problem because of cost. We developed and evaluated a system change innovation designed to remove system barriers to primary care access for Medicaid patients. METHODS Patients who presented to the ED without an identified primary care provider were randomized to the intervention (n = 72) or compar...

Primary care and emergency department decision making.

OBJECTIVE To determine the effect of primary care status on decision making in the pediatric emergency department (ED). SETTING Urban tertiary care children's hospital. DESIGN Examining physicians prospectively completed questionnaires describing the presence of and their familiarity with patients' primary care providers (PCPs), as well as several relevant clinical factors. PATIENTS We pr...

Primary care physiotherapy in the Emergency Department.

The ABCDE primary assessment in the emergency department in medically ill patients: an observational pilot study.

BACKGROUND Competency in the Airway Breathing Circulation Disability Exposure (ABCDE) approach is required for working in the emergency department. There is limited knowledge on how often and how completely the ABCDE approach is applied to medical patients. The objectives of this study were to assess the frequency with which the ABCDE approach was used in potentially unstable patients and to de...

Reduced Emergency Department Utilization after Increased Access to Primary Care

Sanjay Basu and Russell Phillips discuss the findings from Whittaker and colleagues on the link between extending primary care hours and emergency department utilization.