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Title The evolving role of emergency departments in the United States / Kristy Gonzalez Morganti [and others]
Published Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 63 pages : color illustrations
Contents Introduction -- Conceptual Model of ED Use -- Methods -- Findings -- Discussion -- Conclusion
Summary The research described in this report was performed to develop a more complete picture of how hospital emergency departments (EDs) contribute to the U.S. health care system, which is currently evolving in response to economic, clinical, and political pressures. Using a mix of quantitative and qualitative methods, it explores the evolving role that EDs and the personnel who staff them play in evaluating and managing complex and high-acuity patients, serving as the key decisionmaker for roughly half of all inpatient hospital admissions, and serving as "the safety net of the safety net" for patients who cannot get care elsewhere. The report also examines the role that EDs may soon play in either contributing to or helping to control the rising costs of health care
Notes "RAND Health."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 57-63)
Notes English
Subject Hospitals -- Emergency services -- United States
Emergency medicine -- United States
Emergency medical services -- United States
Emergency Service, Hospital -- trends
Emergency Service, Hospital -- economics
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
Emergency medical services
Emergency medicine
Hospitals -- Emergency services
SUBJECT United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
Author Abir, Mahshid.
Bauhoff, Sebastian.
Blanchard, Janice C.
Iyer, Neema.
Kellermann, Arthur L
Morganti, Kristy Gonzalez.
Okeke, Edward N
Smith, Alexandria C
Vesely, Joseph V
American College of Emergency Physicians.
Rand Corporation.
RAND Health.
ISBN 0833080792
9780833080790
9780833080820
0833080822
9780833080806
0833080806
9780833080813
0833080814