The evolving role of emergency departments in the United States /

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Imprint:Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2013.
Description:1 online resource (xi, 63 pages : color illustrations
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11204699
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Other authors / contributors: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
Notes:"RAND Health."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 57-63).
Electronic reproduction. Santa Monica, CA : RAND. Available via World Wide Web.
English.
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.
Other form:Online version: Morganti, Kristy Gonzalez. Evolving role of emergency departments in the United States. Santa Monica, CA : Rand, [2013] 9780833080806
Print version: Evolving role of emergency departments in the United States. Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2013 9780833080790 0833080792