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A study of the workforce in emergency medicine: 1999.
John C. Moorhead,Michael E Gallery,Colleen Hirshkorn,Douglas P. Barnaby,William G. Barsan,Lily Conrad,William C. Dalsey,Michelle Fried,Sanford H. Herman,Paul Hogan,Thomas E. Mannle,Dighton C. Packard,Debra G. Perina,Charles V. Pollack,Michael T. Rapp,Colin C. Rorrie,Robert W. Schafermeyer +16 more
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The purpose of this study is to determine the total number of physicians practicing clinical emergency medicine during a specified period, to describe certain characteristics of those individuals, and to estimate theTotal number of full-time equivalents (FTEs), as well as thetotal number of individuals needed to staff those FTEs.About:
This article is published in Annals of Emergency Medicine.The article was published on 1998-05-01. It has received 137 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Emergency department & Population.read more
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Validity of a set of clinical criteria to rule out injury to the cervical spine in patients with blunt trauma. National Emergency X-Radiography Utilization Study Group.
TL;DR: A prospective, observational study of a set of clinical criteria that can identify patients who have an extremely low probability of injury and who consequently have no need for imaging studies, which identified all but 8 of the 818 patients who had cervical-spine injury.
Validity of a set of clinical criteria to rule out injury to the cervical spine in patients with blunt trauma
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Racial Variations in Treatment and Outcomes of Black and White Patients With High-Risk Non–ST-Elevation Acute Coronary Syndromes Insights From CRUSADE (Can Rapid Risk Stratification of Unstable Angina Patients Suppress Adverse Outcomes With Early Implementation of the ACC/AHA Guidelines?)
Ali F. Sonel,Chester B. Good,Jyotsna Mulgund,Matthew T. Roe,W. Brian Gibler,Sidney C. Smith,Mauricio G. Cohen,Charles V. Pollack,E. Magnus Ohman,Eric D. Peterson +9 more
TL;DR: Black patients with NSTE ACS were less likely than whites to receive many evidence-based treatments, particularly those that are costly or newer, according to the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association guidelines.
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Emergency department crowding: A point in time
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that EDs throughout the United States are severely crowded, which raises concerns about the ability of EDs to respond to mass casualty or volume surges and the level of physical crowding in this pilot study.
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Unscheduled returns to the emergency department: an outcome of medical errors?
TL;DR: Unscheduled returns are associated with medical errors in prognosis, treatment, follow up care, and information, and a worse post-ED destination is associated with these medical errors and patient factors (dyspnoea and advanced age).
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Overcrowding in the nation's emergency departments: complex causes and disturbing effects.
TL;DR: In this article, a complex web of interrelated issues described in this article is used to show that ED overcrowding has multiple effects, including placing the patient at risk for poor outcome, prolonged pain and suffering of some patients, long patient waits, patient dissatisfaction, ambulance diversions in some cities, decreased physician productivity, increased frustration among medical staff, and violence.
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Workforce Projections for Emergency Medicine: How Many Emergency Physicians Does the United States Need?
TL;DR: EM is likely to remain a specialty in which the supply of board-certified EPs will not meet the demand, even at present levels of EM residency output, for the next several decades.