Interhospital Transfers from U.S. Emergency Departments: Implications for Resource Utilization, Patient Safety, and Regionalization

Promoting patient safety and preventing medical error in emergency departments.

An estimated 108,000 people die each year from potentially preventable iatrogenic injury. One in 50 hospitalized patients experiences a preventable adverse event. Up to 3% of these injuries and events take place in emergency departments. With long and detailed training, morbidity and mortality conferences, and an emphasis on practitioner responsibility, medicine has traditionally faced the chal...

Resource allocation for emergency teams in Danish Emergency Departments

Results Nineteen of twenty (95%) departments responded. Three departments were excluded due to incomplete data. All departments (n=16) received unselected critically ill patients, patients in cardiac arrest and trauma patients. In 16 (100%) departments there were a designated team that responded to cardiac arrest and trauma patients. Only 5 (31%) departments had access to a designated medical e...

Health information technology in US emergency departments

BACKGROUND Information technology may improve patient safety, and is a focus of health care reform. A minority of emergency departments (EDs) in Massachusetts, and in academic EDs throughout the US, have electronic health records. AIMS Assess health information technology adoption in a nationwide sample of EDs. METHODS We surveyed 69 US EDs, asking site investigators about the availability ...

Patient satisfaction with emergency departments.

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