Hospital-based emergency care : at the breaking point /

Today our emergency care system faces an epidemic of crowded emergency departments, patients boarding in hallways waiting to be admitted, and daily ambulance diversions. Hospital-Based Emergency Care addresses the difficulty of balancing the roles of hospital-based emergency and trauma care not simp...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on the Future of Emergency Care in the United States Health System
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2007.
Colección:Future of emergency care.
Temas:
Hospitals > Emergency services.
Emergency medical services.
Health care reform.
Health Care Reform
Emergency Service, Hospital
Emergency Medical Services
Hôpitaux > Services des urgences.
Services des urgences médicales.
Services de santé > Réforme.
emergency rooms.
emergency medical centers.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
Health care reform
Emergency medical services
Hospitals > Emergency services
United States
dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The evolving role of hospital-based emergency care
  • Building a 21st-century emergency care system
  • Improving the efficiency of hospital-based emergency care
  • Technology and communications
  • The emergency care workforce
  • Disaster preparedness
  • Enhancing the emergency care research base
  • Appendixes: A. Committee and subcommittee membership
  • B. Biographical information for main committee and hospital-based emergency care subcommittee
  • C. List of presentations to the committee
  • D. List of commissioned papers
  • E. Statistics on emergency and trauma care utilization
  • F. Historical development of hospital-based emergency and trauma care
  • G. Recommendations and responsible entities from the Future of emergency care series.

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