The economic role of the Emergency Department in the health care continuum: applying Michael Porter's five forces model to Emergency MedicineJesse M Pines
Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
J Emerg Med 30:447-53. 2006
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- A review of costing methodologies in critical care studies
Jesse M Pines
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville, VA 22901, USA
J Crit Care 17:181-6. 2002
..Given the importance of financial implications in medicine, it would be prudent for critical care studies to use these more advanced techniques...
Timing of antibiotics for acute, severe infectionsJesse M Pines
Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, Ground Ravdin, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Emerg Med Clin North Am 26:245-57, vii. 2008
..Quality organizations should study carefully the intended and unintended consequences of measuring and reporting antibiotic timing to make policy decisions on current and future performance measures in this area...
- The effect of emergency department crowding on length of stay and medication treatment times in discharged patients with acute asthma
Jesse M Pines
Department of Emergency Medicine, Department of Health Policy, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA
Acad Emerg Med 17:834-9. 2010
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- The role of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine in the development of guidelines and performance measures
Jesse M Pines
Department of Emergency Medicine, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA
Acad Emerg Med 17:e130-40. 2010
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- The effect of emergency department crowding on analgesia in patients with back pain in two hospitals
Jesse M Pines
Department of Emergency Medicine, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA
Acad Emerg Med 17:276-83. 2010
..The authors assessed the association between measures of emergency department (ED) crowding and treatment with analgesia and delays to analgesia in ED patients with back pain...
- ED crowding is associated with variable perceptions of care compromise
Jesse M Pines
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Acad Emerg Med 14:1176-81. 2007
..The authors measured the association between emergency department (ED) crowding and patient and provider perceptions about whether patient care was compromised...
- The association between length of emergency department boarding and mortality
Adam J Singer
Department of Emergency Medicine, Stony Brook University, NY, USA
Acad Emerg Med 18:1324-9. 2011
..The authors expected that prolonged ED boarding of admitted patients would be associated with higher mortality rates and longer hospital lengths of stay (LOS)...
- Postdischarge adverse events for 1-day hospital admissions in older adults admitted from the emergency department
Jesse M Pines
School of Public Health and Health Services, Department of Emergency Medicine, George Washington University, 2121 K Street NW, Washington, DC 20037, USA
Ann Emerg Med 56:253-7. 2010
..We assess hospital readmission and death within 60 days in older adults admitted from the emergency department (ED) and discharged by an inpatient service within 24 hours...
- The effect of physician risk tolerance and the presence of an observation unit on decision making for ED patients with chest pain
Jesse M Pines
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Am J Emerg Med 28:771-9. 2010
..We also studied if the opening of an ED-based observation unit affected the relationship between risk scales and admission decisions...
- The mortality benefit threshold for patients with suspected pulmonary embolism
Jesse M Pines
Departments of Emergency Medicine and Health Policy, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
Acad Emerg Med 19:E1109-13. 2012
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- Multicenter validation of the Philadelphia EMS admission rule (PEAR) to predict hospital admission in adult patients using out-of-hospital data
Zachary F Meisel
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, and the Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Acad Emerg Med 16:519-25. 2009
..The objective was to validate a previously derived prediction rule for hospital admission using routinely collected out-of-hospital information...
- The impact of crowding on time until abdominal CT interpretation in emergency department patients with acute abdominal pain
Angela M Mills
Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 3400Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 4283, USA
Postgrad Med 122:75-81. 2010
..We assessed the relationship between emergency department (ED) crowding and delays in care in patients presenting with abdominal pain who receive abdominal computed tomography (CT)...
- Emergency department lactate is associated with mortality in older adults admitted with and without infections
Daniel A del Portal
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Acad Emerg Med 17:260-8. 2010
..This study investigates whether serum lactate values measured in the ED are associated with mortality in older patients admitted to the hospital, both with and without infections...
- The impact of emergency department crowding measures on time to antibiotics for patients with community-acquired pneumonia
Jesse M Pines
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Ann Emerg Med 50:510-6. 2007
..We seek to determine the impact of emergency department (ED) crowding on delays in antibiotic administration for patients with community-acquired pneumonia...
- The past, present, and future of urgent matters: lessons learned from a decade of emergency department flow improvement
Mark Stephen McClelland
Center for Health Care Quality, Department of Health Policy, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
Acad Emerg Med 18:1392-9. 2011
..This article chronicles the history, activities, lessons learned, and future of the Urgent Matters program...
- Impact of time to antibiotics on survival in patients with severe sepsis or septic shock in whom early goal-directed therapy was initiated in the emergency department
David F Gaieski
Department of Emergency Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care, the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Crit Care Med 38:1045-53. 2010
..To study the association between time to antibiotic administration and survival in patients with severe sepsis or septic shock in whom early goal-directed therapy was initiated in the emergency department...
- Trends in boarding of admitted patients in US Emergency Departments 2003-2005
Brendan G Carr
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6021, USA
J Emerg Med 39:506-11. 2010
..Boarding of admitted patients in the Emergency Department (ED) is common and is associated with poor patient outcomes...
- The effect of emergency department crowding on clinically oriented outcomes
Steven L Bernstein
Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
Acad Emerg Med 16:1-10. 2009
..The effect of emergency department (ED) crowding on these domains of quality has not been comprehensively evaluated...
- The effect of ED crowding on education
Jesse M Pines
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Am J Emerg Med 28:217-20. 2010
..We studied if emergency department (ED) crowding affects the quality of resident and medical student education on individual patient encounters...
- Effect of an automated chest radiograph at triage protocol on time to antibiotics in patients admitted with pneumonia
Julie J Cooper
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Am J Emerg Med 26:264-9. 2008
..We derived and tested a protocol to automatically order a chest radiograph (CXR) at emergency department triage for patients with signs and symptoms of pneumonia to reduce time to antibiotics...
- The association between emergency department crowding and analgesia administration in acute abdominal pain patients
Angela M Mills
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Acad Emerg Med 16:603-8. 2009
..The authors assessed the effect of emergency department (ED) crowding on the nontreatment and delay in treatment for analgesia in patients who had acute abdominal pain...
- Emergency medicine: an operations management view
Olan A Soremekun
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Acad Emerg Med 18:1262-8. 2011
..When conceptualizing ED crowding interventions, these are the major strategies to consider...
- Testing low-risk patients for suspected pulmonary embolism: a decision analysis
Adam L Lessler
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Ann Emerg Med 55:316-326.e1. 2010
..In addition, we determine which risks and benefits of pulmonary embolism evaluation and treatment have the greatest effect on the testing threshold...
- The association between emergency department crowding and adverse cardiovascular outcomes in patients with chest pain
Jesse M Pines
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Acad Emerg Med 16:617-25. 2009
..The authors examined whether ED crowding was associated with adverse cardiovascular outcomes in patients with chest pain syndromes (chest pain or related complaints of possible cardiac origin)...
- Emergency ultrasound usage among recent emergency medicine residency graduates of a convenience sample of 14 residencies
Anthony J Dean
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
J Emerg Med 38:214-20, quiz 220-1. 2010
..Emergency Medicine (EM) residency graduates are trained to perform Emergency Medicine bedside ultrasound (EMBU). However, the degree to which they use this skill in their practice after graduation is unknown...
- Trends in the rates of radiography use and important diagnoses in emergency department patients with abdominal pain
Jesse M Pines
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Med Care 47:782-6. 2009
..Computed tomography (CT) and ultrasound (US) are used in emergency departments (ED) to aid in the diagnosis of patients with abdominal pain...
- Pregnancy testing in women of reproductive age in US emergency departments, 2002 to 2006: assessment of a national quality measure
Jeremiah D Schuur
Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, and the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Ann Emerg Med 55:449-457.e2. 2010
..We assess performance and explore definitions for a new emergency department (ED) quality measure: the proportion of women aged 14 to 50 years who have abdominal pain and receive pregnancy testing (aimed at detecting ectopic pregnancy)...
- The effect of emergency department crowding on patient satisfaction for admitted patients
Jesse M Pines
Department of Emergency Medicine, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Acad Emerg Med 15:825-31. 2008
..The objective was to study the association between factors related to emergency department (ED) crowding and patient satisfaction...
- Emergency department operational changes in response to pay-for-performance and antibiotic timing in pneumonia
Jesse M Pines
Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Acad Emerg Med 14:545-8. 2007
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Factors associated with nonadherence to early goal-directed therapy in the EDMark E Mikkelsen
Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Division, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Chest 138:551-8. 2010
..EGDT appears to be underused, even in centers with formalized protocols. The aim of our study was to identify factors associated with not initiating EGDT in the ED...
- Critical pathways for post-emergency outpatient diagnosis and treatment: tools to improve the value of emergency care
Jeremiah D Schuur
Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Acad Emerg Med 18:e52-63. 2011
..Increased use of critical pathways after emergency care is a potential way to improve the value of emergency care...
- Provider variation in fast track treatment time
Melissa L McCarthy
Department of Health Policy, George Washington University, Washington, DC 21209, USA
Med Care 50:43-9. 2012
..To examine the degree to which fast track (FT) treatment time varies among providers...
- International perspectives on emergency department crowding
Jesse M Pines
Center for Health Care Quality, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
Acad Emerg Med 18:1358-70. 2011
..An understanding of the causes and potential solutions implemented in these countries can provide a lens into how to mitigate ED crowding in the United States through health policy interventions and hospital operational changes...
- Comparison of methods for measuring crowding and its effects on length of stay in the emergency department
Melissa L McCarthy
Center for Healthcare Quality, Departments of Health Policy and Emergency Medicine, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
Acad Emerg Med 18:1269-77. 2011
..The authors compare daily versus hourly measures, static versus dynamic measures, and the use of linear or logistic regression models versus survival analysis models to estimate the effect of crowding on an outcome...
- Conference proceedings-improving the quality and efficiency of emergency care across the continuum: a systems approach
Jesse M Pines
Department of Emergency Medicine and Health Policy, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
Acad Emerg Med 18:655-61. 2011
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- Racial disparities in emergency department length of stay for admitted patients in the United States
Jesse M Pines
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Acad Emerg Med 16:403-10. 2009
..Specifically, the study estimated both the within- and among-hospital effects of black versus non-black race on LOS for admitted patients...
- Pay for performance for antibiotic timing in pneumonia: caveat emptor
Jesse M Pines
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 32:531-5. 2006
..The answer is to find measures of system throughput and/or work flow that are associated with improved patient care outcomes...
- Emergency department patient volume and troponin laboratory turnaround time
Ula Hwang
Department of Emergency Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Acad Emerg Med 17:501-7. 2010
..The objective of this study was to determine how ED patient volume itself is associated with laboratory TAT...
- Systematic delays in antibiotic administration in the emergency department for adult patients admitted with pneumonia
Jesse M Pines
Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Acad Emerg Med 13:939-45. 2006
..The authors sought to determine the contribution of delays in care on time to antibiotics for patients admitted from the emergency department (ED) with pneumonia and to identify patients at risk for delayed antibiotics...
- Derivation and internal validation of a rule to predict hospital admission in prehospital patients
Zachary F Meisel
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 12:314-9. 2008
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- Measuring value for low-acuity care across settings
Sofie Rahman Morgan
Department of Emergency Medicine, Georgetown University Hospital Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC, USA
Am J Manag Care 18:e356-63. 2012
..Aligning value among groups could allow stakeholders to influence each other and could guide rational change in the delivery of acute medical care for low-acuity conditions...
- The impact of 24-hr, in-hospital pediatric critical care attending physician presence on process of care and patient outcomes*
Akira Nishisaki
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Crit Care Med 40:2190-5. 2012
..We compared processes of care and outcomes before and after the implementation of a 24-hr in-hospital pediatric intensive care unit attending physician model...
- Practical implications of implementing emergency department crowding interventions: summary of a moderated panel
Jesse M Pines
Department of Emergency Medicine, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
Acad Emerg Med 18:1278-82. 2011
..This article describes each panelist's comments in detail...
- Variations in ambulance use in the United States: the role of health insurance
Zachary F Meisel
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, The Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, The Department of Emergency Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Acad Emerg Med 18:1036-44. 2011
..The purpose of this study was to describe the associations between individual health insurance and ambulance utilization using a national sample of patients who receive emergency department (ED) care...
- Emergency department throughput, crowding, and financial outcomes for hospitals
Daniel A Handel
Center for Policy and Research in Emergency Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA
Acad Emerg Med 17:840-7. 2010
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- The financial consequences of lost demand and reducing boarding in hospital emergency departments
Jesse M Pines
Departments of Emergency Medicine and Health Policy, George Washington University, Washington, DC 20037, USA
Ann Emerg Med 58:331-40. 2011
..We explore the revenue implications to the overall hospital of reducing boarding in the ED...
- Enhancing systems to improve the management of acute, unscheduled care
Sabina A Braithwaite
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Kansas, Wichita, USA
Acad Emerg Med 18:e39-44. 2011
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- What you see (sonographically) is what you get: vein and patient characteristics associated with successful ultrasound-guided peripheral intravenous placement in patients with difficult access
Nova L Panebianco
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Acad Emerg Med 16:1298-303. 2009
..This study sought to define patient and vein characteristics that affect successful US-guided peripheral IV placement...
- Point-of-care testing at triage decreases time to lactate level in septic patients
Munish Goyal
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
J Emerg Med 38:578-81. 2010
..Larger studies are needed to determine the ability of POC lactate measurement to aid in the risk stratification of septic patients...
- Emergency department crowding is associated with poor care for patients with severe pain
Jesse M Pines
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Ann Emerg Med 51:1-5. 2008
..We study the impact of emergency department (ED) crowding on delays in treatment and nontreatment for patients with severe pain...
- The association between physician risk tolerance and imaging use in abdominal pain
Jesse M Pines
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Am J Emerg Med 27:552-7. 2009
..We sought to determine the impact of 3 validated scales of physician risk behavior on imaging use in emergency department (ED) patients with abdominal pain...
- The association between emergency department crowding and hospital performance on antibiotic timing for pneumonia and percutaneous intervention for myocardial infarction
Jesse M Pines
Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Acad Emerg Med 13:873-8. 2006
..Antibiotics within four hours of arrival for patients with pneumonia and percutaneous intervention (PCI) within two hours for patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) are standard measures of emergency department (ED) quality...
- The impact of trauma activations on the care of emergency department patients with potential acute coronary syndromes
Peter E Fishman
Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-4283, USA
Ann Emerg Med 48:347-53. 2006
..Although trauma activations improve the care of trauma patients, they may be associated with a negative impact on the care of other patients requiring contemporaneous resources...
- The effect of vessel depth, diameter, and location on ultrasound-guided peripheral intravenous catheter longevity
J Matthew Fields
Department of Emergency Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Am J Emerg Med 30:1134-40. 2012
..Ultrasound-guided peripheral intravenous catheters (USGPIVs) have been observed to have poor durability. The current study sets out to determine whether vessel characteristics (depth, diameter, and location) predict USGPIV longevity...
- The measurement of time to first antibiotic dose for pneumonia in the emergency department: a white paper and position statement prepared for the American Academy of Emergency Medicine
Jesse M Pines
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
J Emerg Med 37:335-40. 2009
..Measurement of time to first antibiotic dose (TFAD) in the emergency department (ED) in community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) has been controversial...
- Emergency department patient preferences for boarding locations when hospitals are at full capacity
Chad Garson
Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Ann Emerg Med 51:9-12, 12.e1-3. 2008
..One alternative is to board admitted patients in inpatient hallways. We assess ED patient preferences for boarding location...
- Using information technology to improve the quality and safety of emergency care
Daniel A Handel
Center for Policy and Research in Emergency Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, USA
Acad Emerg Med 18:e45-51. 2011
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- Electrocardiographic differential diagnosis of narrow QRS complex tachycardia: an ED-oriented algorithmic approach
Matthew P Borloz
Department of Emergency Medicine, Georgetown University Washington Hospital Center, DC, USA
Am J Emerg Med 28:378-81. 2010
..Each of these algorithms requires the clinician to answer either "yes" or "no" for each criterion and does not include treatment recommendations...
- Exogenous predictors of national performance measures for emergency department crowding
Jesse M Pines
Departments of Emergency Medicine and Health Policy, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
Ann Emerg Med 60:293-8. 2012
..We seek to find predictors for benchmarking and public reporting...
- Comparative effectiveness of care coordination interventions in the emergency department: a systematic review
Elyse B Katz
George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA
Ann Emerg Med 60:12-23.e1. 2012
..To conduct a systematic review on the effectiveness of emergency department (ED)-based care coordination interventions...
- Preexcitation syndromes: diagnostic consideration in the ED
Dustin G Mark
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Am J Emerg Med 27:878-88. 2009
..This article reviews the pathophysiology of preexcitation, along with the electrocardiographic findings of Wolff-Parkinson-White and its associated tachyarrhythmias...
- Frequent users of emergency department services: gaps in knowledge and a proposed research agenda
Jesse M Pines
Department of Emergency Medicine, George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
Acad Emerg Med 18:e64-9. 2011
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- Untreated hypertension and the emergency department: a chance to intervene?
Craig A Umscheid
Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Acad Emerg Med 15:529-36. 2008
..The authors investigated the accuracy of identifying HTN in the ED, the proportion of ED patients with untreated HTN, patient characteristics predicting untreated HTN, and provider documentation of untreated HTN...
- A field test of time-based emergency department quality measures
Mark Stephen McClelland
Center for Health Care Quality, Department of Health Policy, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
Ann Emerg Med 59:1-10.e2. 2012
..We examine practical aspects of collecting time-based emergency department (ED) performance measures...
- Improving service quality by understanding emergency department flow: a White Paper and position statement prepared for the American Academy of Emergency Medicine
Dave R Eitel
Department of Emergency Medicine, York Hospital, York, Pennsylvania, USA
J Emerg Med 38:70-9. 2010
..Finally, we present a position statement on behalf of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine addressing these issues...
- Absolute lymphocyte count in the emergency department predicts a low CD4 count in admitted HIV-positive patients
Anthony M Napoli
Department of Emergency Medicine, Brown University Medical School, Providence, RI, USA
Acad Emerg Med 18:385-9. 2011
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- A survey of the use of time-out protocols in emergency medicine
John J Kelly
Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 37:285-8. 2011
..Attitudes about ED time-outs were assessed for a sample of senior emergency physicians serving in leadership roles for a national professional society...
- Predictive values of triage temperature and pulse for antibiotic administration and hospital admission in elderly patients with potential infection
Jesse M Pines
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, 19104, USA
Am J Emerg Med 24:679-83. 2006
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- Electrocardiographic manifestations of cardiac infectious-inflammatory disorders
Mohan Punja
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 22908, USA
Am J Emerg Med 28:364-77. 2010
..This review will highlight some of the clinical and electrocardiographic features that will help early diagnosis and differentiation of inflammatory cardiac disorders from other more common conditions...
- Profiles in patient safety: Antibiotic timing in pneumonia and pay-for-performance
Jesse M Pines
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Acad Emerg Med 13:787-90. 2006
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- Defining and measuring successful emergency care networks: a research agenda
Seth W Glickman
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Acad Emerg Med 17:1297-305. 2010
..These knowledge gaps must be filled to improve the quality and efficiency of emergency care and to fulfill the IOM's vision of regionalized, coordinated, and accountable emergency care systems...
- Predictors of frequent emergency department utilization in Southeastern Pennsylvania
Jesse M Pines
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 19104, USA
J Asthma 43:219-23. 2006
..We sought to determine socioeconomic and demographic factors that predict frequent emergency department (ED) use among asthmatics in Southeastern Pennsylvania...
- Risk tolerance for the exclusion of potentially life-threatening diseases in the ED
Jesse M Pines
Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Am J Emerg Med 25:540-4. 2007
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- Within the inflamed lung. Signs, symptoms & treatment of pneumonia in adults & children
Jesse M Pines
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
JEMS 32:64-75; quiz 76. 2007
- The epidemiology of intentional non-fatal self-harm poisoning in the United States: 2001-2004
Jane M Prosser
Department of Emergency Medicine, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
J Med Toxicol 3:20-4. 2007
..Suicide attempts through intentional poisoning are an important public health concern. This investigation sought to determine the different US incident rates of poisonings (with intent to do self-harm) by race, sex, and gender...
- Profiles in patient safety: confirmation bias in emergency medicine
Jesse M Pines
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Acad Emerg Med 13:90-4. 2006
..Reliance on the scientific method, Bayesian reasoning, metacognition, and cognitive forcing strategies may serve to improve diagnostic accuracy and improve patient care...
- Coded Chief Complaints--automated analysis of free-text complaints
David A Thompson
Department of Emergency Medicine, MacNeal Hospital, Berwyn, IL 60402, USA
Acad Emerg Med 13:774-82. 2006
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- The left-without-being-seen rate: an imperfect measure of emergency department crowding
Jesse M Pines
Acad Emerg Med 13:807; author reply 807-8. 2006
- Thirty-day versus 7-day outcomes in the San Francisco Syncope Rule
Worth W Everett
Ann Emerg Med 48:760; author reply 760-1. 2006
- Survey study estimating surge capacity in trauma centers in the United States
Brendan G Carr
J Trauma 62:1067; author reply 1067-8. 2007
- The emergency department crowding paradox: the longer you stay, the less care you get
Judd E Hollander
Ann Emerg Med 50:497-9. 2007
- Preventable deaths from quality failures in emergency department care for pneumonia and myocardial infarction: an overestimation
Christopher Fee
Acad Emerg Med 15:300-1; author reply 302-3. 2008
- Measuring antibiotic timing for pneumonia in the emergency department: another nail in the coffin
Jesse M Pines
Ann Emerg Med 49:561-3. 2007
