| | Emergency Physicians’ Attrition Rate Less than Two Percent, Lower Than Overall Average for Physicians |
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| | December 15, 2009
Despite work correlated with high levels of occupational stress and burnout, emergency physicians drop out of clinical practice at a rate well below that of physicians overall, and report high levels of career satisfaction. Findings are reported online today in Annals of Emergency Medicine (“Attrition from Emergency Medicine Clinical Practice in the United States”). |
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| | Emergency Physicians' Top Safety Concerns Are Crowding and Shortages of On-Call Specialists and Nurses |
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| | October 20, 2009
New poll of emergency physicians reveals a gap between national safety benchmarking programs and actual safety concerns among emergency physicians, with crowding from inpatient boarding deemed the greatest threat to patient safety overall. |
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| | Elderly Represent Growing Share Of Emergency Department Patients, While Proportion Of Uninsured Patients Shrinks |
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| | October 1, 2009
A growing portion of the population is visiting emergency departments, and there has been a continuous rise in the proportion of heavy emergency departments users (defined as three or more visits a year) between 1996 and 2005. |
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| | Few Emergency Departments Meet Recommended Wait Times For Patients, Including Patients Who Need Care Within One Hour |
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| | September 30, 2009
Only 30 percent of emergency departments got the majority of their patients seen by a physician within recommended time frames, and only 13.8 percent of emergency departments achieved the triage target for the majority of patients who needed to see a doctor within one hour. |
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| | Patient-Driven Pain Relief Superior To Physician-Driven Pain Relief In Emergency Patients With Acute Pain |
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| | June 29, 2009
Emergency patients who have more control over the dosing of their acute pain medication have better and faster pain relief than patients who do not. The results of the study were reported online Friday in the Annals of Emergency Medicine. |
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| | New Test For Appendicitis In Children Shows Potential To Reduce Both Unnecessary Appendectomies And Ruptures |
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| | June 23, 2009
Appendicitis, the most common surgical emergency in children, has been notoriously difficult to diagnose, but a new urine test shows promise in improving diagnosis and reducing both unnecessary surgeries and appendix ruptures. |
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| | Medical Workforce Study: Increasing Numbers Of Physicians Are Board Certified In Emergency Medicine, But National Shortage May Continue For Decades |
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| | April 20, 2009
The United States has nearly 40,000 clinically active emergency physicians, but these numbers are not adequate to treat the growing number of people who visit emergency departments each year. |
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| | Patients Who Are 'Boarded' in the Emergency Department, Especially Those Older Than 50, Risk Undesirable Events While Waiting For A Bed |
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| | March 19, 2009
More than one-quarter of patients who are held (or “boarded”) in the emergency department after admission to the hospital suffer undesirable events, with older patients and those with chronic illnesses suffering the most. |
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| | Most Patients Who Think They Are Allergic To Penicillin Are Not; Skin Testing In The Emergency Department Is Fast And Inexpensive |
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| | February 12, 2009
Over 90 percent of patients who report that they are allergic to the antibiotic penicillin in fact test negative for the allergy, which has important implications for how infections are treated in the emergency department and elsewhere. |
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| | One-Third of Emergency Physicians Suffer From Burnout, Most Still Satisfied With Their Career |
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| | February 6, 2009
One-third of emergency physicians surveyed showed signs of career burnout, principally related to anxiety caused by bad outcomes for their patients, according to a study published online yesterday in the Annals of Emergency Medicine. |
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| | Parents Prefer Inpatient Hallways to the Emergency Department For Children Who Are “Boarded” While Waiting for a Bed |
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| | January 29, 2009
Parents whose children are admitted to the hospital from the emergency department prefer to have their children wait on inpatient hallways than in the emergency department, according to a study published online today in the Annals of Emergency Medicine. |
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| | Serious Injuries From Taser Are Extremely Rare |
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| | January 15, 2009
A three-year review of all Taser uses against criminal suspects at six law enforcement agencies found only three significant injuries out of 1,201 criminal suspects subdued by conducted electrical weapons (CEW), or Tasers, and reports that 99.75% of criminal suspects shocked by a Taser received no injuries or mild injuries only, such as scrapes and bruises. |
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