Using observation units in hospitals to provide care to certain patients can be more efficient
than admitting them to the hospital and can result in shorter lengths-of-stay and lower costs …

Background—Cardiac stress testing in patients at low risk for acute coronary syndrome is
associated with increased false-positive test results, unnecessary downstream procedures …

Background Emergency department (ED) care is a focus of cost reduction efforts. Costs for
acute care originating in the ED, including outpatient and inpatient encounters (ie ED …

Clinical research often focuses on resource-intensive causal inference, whereas the
potential of predictive analytics with constantly increasing big data sources remains largely …

The emergency department (ED) is now the primary source for hospitalizations in the United
States, and admission rates for all causes differ widely between EDs. In this study we used a …

This article evaluates current evidence on the cost of emergency care. First, we reviewed
data from national data sets and found that aggregate spending on emergency care is 5% to …

Objectives Ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSC s) are acute care diagnoses that
could potentially be prevented through improved primary care. This study investigated how …

ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE 2011; 18: e70–e76© 2011 by the Society for
Academic Emergency Medicine Abstract Palliative care focuses on the physical, spiritual …

Emergency clinicians are on the front lines of responding to the opioid epidemic and are
leading innovations to reduce opioid overdose deaths through safer prescribing, harm …

Clinical or care pathways are developed by a multidisciplinary team of healthcare
practitioners, based on clinical evidence, and standardized processes. The evaluation of …