1. Consumer education may help reduce the number of emergency ambulance calls for problems that could be safely managed in another setting, according to a study in Emergency Medicine Journal.
2. The shortest average wait time to see physicians in the U.S. rose more than one minute from 2011 to 2012, according to Vitals’ “Physician Wait Time Report.”
3. Existing literature on strategies to manage scarce medical resources in a mass casualty event is largely inconclusive, according to a study in Annals of Emergency Medicine.
4. A protocol to manage patient flow variability in an operating room led to increased prime time use and income, according to a study in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.
5. Patients who are discharged from the emergency department with “primary care treatable” diagnoses may actually need emergency care, according to study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
6. Patients who visit the emergency department frequently tend to have psychiatric and social comorbidities, according to a study in Journal of Emergency Medicine.
7. Healthcare leaders may be unequipped to manage future capacity management issues, according to a survey by GE Healthcare Performance Solutions.
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