Tag
emergency room
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Emergency department boarding: Covering the hidden horror story
Emergency department boarding has worsened in recent years as hospitals face financial pressure to wring out excess inpatient capacity.
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Shedding light on upcoding in the ER
The Houston Chronicle’s Jenny Deam delved into emergency room billing – hospital facility fees as well as “upcoding,” which means…
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Personal story illustrates multiple barriers to health care, need for navigators
Elizabeth Piatt begins the narrative of her reluctant journey into the Medicaid dental care system this way: “In the spring…
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R.I. program provides care outside hospitals in effort to reduce ER use
Using community health workers to work with frequent emergency room visitors is showing some success in reducing ER use. The…
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Seattle hospitals love building costly ERs
The Puget Sound emergency room construction boom is in full swing, and Seattle Times reporter Carol Ostrom has taken a…
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Canadians fight for disclosure of medical treatment
It took eight years, a whistleblower and intervention from a state commissioner to uncover a fatal medical error in a…
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Hospital sends ER wait times via text
Edward Hospital in Naperville, Ill., has taken the art of making ER wait times available to prospective patients to the…
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Posting ER wait times online: Gimmick or service?
Writing for HealthLeaders Media, Cheryl Clark looked at the growing number of hospitals that are posting their emergency room wait…
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22 percent of kids’ hospital visits sports related
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has sifted through the numbers in the 2006 report “Sports Injuries in Children…
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Two vaccines keeping kids out of ERs
Maryn McKenna writes in Annals of Emergency Medicine that the impressive recent success of rotavirus and pneumococcus vaccines has caused…