Article: UCSF study challenges ER overcrowding theory

Article: Blacks, Hispanics and Other Groups Less Likely to Get Strong Pain Medications in Hospital Emergency Departments
U.S. Newswire;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......go to hospital emergency departments in pain are significantly...2005, found 23 percent of blacks and...Twenty-eight percent of Asians and...Seeking Care in US Emergency Departments,will be published...patients in pain in emergency departments, the use of ...

Article: Study: About half the nation's hospitals experience crowded emergency departments.
Mountaineer (Waynesville, NC);  December 29, 2006 ;     417 words ......minutes for 44.6 percent of the emergency departments in rural areas...minutes for 31.8 percent of the EDs in...Half of the emergency departments in metropolitan...had more than 5 percent of their nursing...the number of emergency departments, according ...

Article: Visits to U.S. Emergency Departments at All-Time High; Number of Departments Shrinking
U.S. Newswire;  May 26, 2005 ;     580 words ......the nation's emergency departments (EDs) reached...decreased by 14 percent from 1993 to...the nation's emergency departments is part of a...increased 26 percent from 90.3 million...represented 82 percent of the annual...available at 64 percent of EDs and almost...for ...

Article: Overcrowded Emergency Departments Threaten Patient Access to Care; VHA Poll Shows Hospital EDs Serving Communities Despite Capacity Stresses.
PR Newswire;  December 11, 2003 ;     478 words ......Hospital emergency departments nationwide are...of other area emergency departments as significant...member hospital emergency departments are providing...hour, and 65 percent said their hospitals...room in their emergency departments. Other results...by HIV. -- ...

Article: Emergency departments in crisis: opportunities for research.
Health Services Research;  February 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Approximately 10 percent of all ambulatory...occurred in emergency departments. * There...the rate emergency departments use increased by 6 percent, from 36...difficulties, emergency departments are generally...the high percentage of visits...

Article: Future Quality Measures Must Consider Realities of Emergency Departments, Emergency Physicians Say; Current Hospital Quality Measures are Improving Patient Care.
PR Newswire;  April 19, 2005 ;     642 words ......president of ACEP. Many emergency departments are crowded, with...emergency physicians (99 percent) said it was important...But over half (56 percent) cited a concern that...Three-quarters (74 percent) of emergency physicians...Seven in 10 (71 percent) are concerned ...

Article: EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS TEST CHEST PAIN PATIENTS DIFFERENTLY, BASED ON RACE, GENDER, INSURANCE
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  February 1, 2007 ;     575 words ......evaluation of patients with chest pain seen in emergency departments. The study, conducted by Liliana E. Pezzin...Hospital Ambulatory Health Care Survey of Emergency Departments (NHAMCS-ED), from 1995 to 2000, for patients...They found that the rate of visits to emergency departments ...

Article: Emergency Departments Test Chest Pain Patients Differently, Based on Race, Gender, Insurance.
Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  February 1, 2007 ;     606 words ......evaluation of patients with chest pain seen in emergency departments. The study, conducted by Liliana E. Pezzin...Hospital Ambulatory Health Care Survey of Emergency Departments (NHAMCS-ED), from 1995 to 2000, for patients...They found that the rate of visits to emergency departments ...

Article: ALMOST HALF OF HOSPITALS EXPERIENCE CROWDED EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  September 27, 2006 ;     211 words ......Prevention issued the following press release: Between 40 percent and 50 percent of U.S. hospitals experience crowded conditions in the emergency department (ED) with almost two-thirds of metropolitan...Staffing, Capacity, and Ambulance Diversion in Emergency Departments: United States, ...

Article: Emergency Departments See Dramatic Increase in People with Mental Illness Seeking Care; Emergency Physicians Cite State Health Care Budget Cuts at Root of Problem.
PR Newswire;  April 27, 2004 ;     700+ words ......seeking treatment in emergency departments is taking a significant...Two-thirds (67 percent) of emergency...to seek care in Emergency Departments. The new survey...illness. Seventy percent of emergency physicians...board in hospital emergency departments ...

Article: INGREDIENT IN COUGH MEDICINE RESULTS IN MORE THAN 12,000 VISITS TO HOSPITAL EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS IN 2004
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 9, 2006 ;     511 words ......12,584 visits to hospital emergency departments during 2004, and 5,581 of...nonmedical use, almost half (48 percent) involved patients ages 12...gov. DAWN collects data from emergency departments in a national sample of short-te...

Article: Presence of senior doctors at emergency departments a must.
The Nation (Karachi, Pakistan);  June 30, 2009 ;     369 words ......appointment of senior doctors at all the emergency departments of the teaching hospitals across...professors during the night hours at the emergency departments of the teaching hospitals. According...expedient that the supervision of Emergency Departments is being assigned to an ...

Article: Fed: AMA says emergency departments stressed all the time
AAP General News (Australia);  August 2, 2007 ;     438 words ......08-02-2007 Fed: AMA says emergency departments stressed all the time...Overstretched hospital emergency departments are struggling to...Dr Capolingua said emergency departments could not cope with...

Article: NSW: Emergency departments take on bulk-billing fallout
AAP General News (Australia);  November 19, 2002 ;     508 words ...00-00-0000 NSW: Emergency departments take on bulk-billing fallout...SYDNEY, Nov 19 AAP - Hospital emergency departments were having to hand out...increase in the demand on emergency departments. The numbers of bulk billing...