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The next patient you see in your ED may be a "mystery shopper" and you won't even know it.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) final rule for Medicare payment for hospital outpatient services in calendar year 2007 contains several new wrinkles that will benefit EDs, say observers. Among them is a significant boost in ambulatory payment classification (APC) rates.
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At Swedish Medical Center's ED in Seattle, clinical staff wear locator badges (Versus; Traverse City, MI) that identify where specific individuals are located, via a light above the patient rooms and on a tracking view of a computer.
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Three Lincoln, NE-based EDs have joined forces to tackle two of the most nagging problems facing emergency departments today: The use of EDs for primary care services, and the growing number of uninsured or underinsured patients seeking emergency care.
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Two studies to be published in the April 2006 edition of Annals of Emergency Medicine1,2 indicate that the ambulance diversion problem in America has become even more serious and is growing steadily worse.
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According to a new study in the Archives of Internal Medicine,1 ED managers may be able to predict with greater accuracy than ever before the risk of post-discharge mortality in patients presenting with shortness of breath whether they are diagnosed with heart failure.
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Researchers at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, NY, have created a new coma scale they say is superior to the commonly used Glasgow Coma Scale (GSC). The new scale, called the FOUR (Full Outline of UnResponsiveness) Score, is detailed in a recent article in the Annals of Neurology.1
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Do ED physicians overprescribe antibiotics for children with sore throats? They do, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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A growing number of ED managers have begun using ED physicians as greeters placing them in triage as the first provider to see patients. With the creation of a door-to-doc time of virtually zero, the patient satisfaction benefits are obvious. Proponents also argue that this strategy can improve flow as well.
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The ED at MetroHealth Hospital in Grand Rapids, MI, has achieved a door-to-doc time of 19 minutes with the help of an information system.
