Research Catalog

Title

The evolving role of emergency departments in the United States / Kristy Gonzalez Morganti, Sebastian Bauhoff, Janice C. Blanchard, Mahshid Abir, Neema Iyer, Alexandria C. Smith, Joseph V. Vesely, Edward N. Okeke, Arthur L. Kellermann.

Author

Morganti, Kristy Gonzalez

Publication

Santa Monica, California : Rand, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bauhoff, Sebastian
• Blanchard, Janice C.
• Abir, Mahshid
• Iyer, Neema
• Rand Corporation, issuing body.

Description

xi, 63 pages : illustrations (some color); 28 cm

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 ́⁰the safety net of the safety net́⁰+С 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.

Subject

• Hospitals > Emergency services > United States
• Emergency medicine > United States

Note

• "RAND Health."
• "Research report. RR-280-ACEP."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 57-63).

Contents

Conceptual model of ED use -- Methods -- Findings -- Discussion -- Conclusions : implications for policy.

Call Number

JFF 17-389

ISBN

• 9780833080790
• 0833080792

LCCN

2013019792

OCLC

843311007

Author

Morganti, Kristy Gonzalez, author.

Title

The evolving role of emergency departments in the United States / Kristy Gonzalez Morganti, Sebastian Bauhoff, Janice C. Blanchard, Mahshid Abir, Neema Iyer, Alexandria C. Smith, Joseph V. Vesely, Edward N. Okeke, Arthur L. Kellermann.

Publisher

Santa Monica, California : Rand, 2013.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 57-63).

Connect to:

Electronic version does not include appendix materials.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR280.html

Added Author

Bauhoff, Sebastian, author.

Blanchard, Janice C., author.

Abir, Mahshid, author.

Iyer, Neema, author.

Rand Corporation, issuing body.

Other Form:

Online version: Morganti, Kristy Gonzalez, author. Evolving role of emergency departments in the United States. Santa Monica, CA : Rand, [2013] 9780833080806 (DLC) 2013020043

Report No.

RAND/RR-280-ACEP

Research Call Number

JFF 17-389