Research Topics
| B R AsplinSummaryAffiliation: HealthPartners Research Foundation Country: USA Publications
| Collaborators
|
Detail Information
Publications
A conceptual model of emergency department crowdingBrent R Asplin
Department of Emergency Medicine, Regions Hospital and HealthPartners Research Foundation, and University of Minnesota Medical School, St Paul and Minneapolis, MN 55101, USA
Ann Emerg Med 42:173-80. 2003..The goal of the conceptual model is to provide a practical framework on which an organized research, policy, and operations management agenda can be based to alleviate ED crowding...- Emergency department crowding: consensus development of potential measuresLeif I Solberg
HealthPartners Medical Group and Clinics and HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1524, USA
Ann Emerg Med 42:824-34. 2003..We identify measures of emergency department (ED) and hospital workflow that would be of value in understanding, monitoring, and managing crowding... - Tying a knot in the unraveling health care safety netB R Asplin
Department of Emergency Medicine, Regions Hospital and HealthPartners Research Foundation, St Paul, MN 55101, USA
Acad Emerg Med 8:1075-9. 2001..In response to the IOM's challenges, emergency departments should be used more effectively to monitor local safety net viability and to enhance the integration of community health care safety net delivery systems... - Developing models for patient flow and daily surge capacity researchBrent R Asplin
Department of Emergency Medicine, Regions Hospital, 640 Jackson Street, St Paul, MN 55101, USA
Acad Emerg Med 13:1109-13. 2006..Finally, they identify potential research questions that are based on applications of the proposed research models... - Insurance status and access to urgent ambulatory care follow-up appointmentsBrent R Asplin
Department of Emergency Medicine, Regions Hospital and HealthPartners Research Foundation, St Paul, Minn 55101, USA
JAMA 294:1248-54. 2005..There is growing pressure to avoid hospitalizing emergency department patients who can be treated safely as outpatients, but this strategy depends on timely access to follow-up care... - The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act as a federal health care safety net programW W Fields
American College of Emergency Physicians Safety Net Task Force, St Paul, MN, USA
Acad Emerg Med 8:1064-9. 2001..Future actions are proposed, including the pressing need for greater public safety net funding and additional actions to preserve health care access for vulnerable populations... - Safety net research in emergency medicine: proceedings of the Academic Emergency Medicine Consensus Conference on "The Unraveling Safety Net"J A Gordon
Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Division of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital Partners HealthCare System, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Acad Emerg Med 8:1024-9. 2001..The current system for safety net care is described, and the emergency department is conceptualized as a window on safety net patients and systems, uniquely positioned to help study and coordinate integrated processes of care... - Using online analytical processing to manage emergency department operationsBradley D Gordon
Department of Emergency Medicine, Regions Hospital, 640 Jackson Street, St Paul, MN 55101, USA
Acad Emerg Med 11:1206-12. 2004..While OLAP is clearly a helpful tool in the ED, it is far more useful when integrated into the larger continuum of health information systems across a hospital or health care delivery system... - The quality gap: searching for the consequences of emergency department crowdingDavid J Magid
Ann Emerg Med 44:586-8. 2004 - Hospital-based emergency care: a future without boarding?Brent R Asplin
Ann Emerg Med 48:121-5. 2006 - Emergency department crowding: old problem, new solutionsSteven L Bernstein
Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY 10467, USA
Emerg Med Clin North Am 24:821-37. 2006..More research needs to be done to better understand the factors that contribute to crowding, the impact of this problem on patients and ED throughput, and how to alleviate this nationwide crisis... - Access to emergency care: restricted by long waiting times and cost and coverage concernsJae Kennedy
Department of Health Policy and Administration, Washington State University, Spokane, WA 99210 1495, USA
Ann Emerg Med 43:567-73. 2004..We monitor progress toward Healthy People 2010 objectives of reducing health disparities and decreasing delay and difficulty in access to emergency care... - Hospital and emergency department crowding in the United StatesRobert W Schafermeyer
Department of Emergency Medicine, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
Emerg Med (Fremantle) 15:22-7. 2003..In order to achieve any of these changes in policy over the long term, advocates for reform must aggressively pursue them today... - Show me the money! Managing access, outcomes, and cost in high-risk populationsBrent R Asplin
Ann Emerg Med 43:174-7. 2004 - Executive summary: the Institute of Medicine report and the future of academic emergency medicine: the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and Association of Academic Chairs in Emergency Medicine Panel: Association of American Medical Colleges annual Daniel A Handel
Center for Policy Research in Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA
Acad Emerg Med 14:261-7. 2007..The report recommendations and other related recommendations brought forward during the panel discussions should be addressed through innovative programs and policy development at the regional and federal levels... - If you want to fix crowding, start by fixing your hospitalBrent R Asplin
Ann Emerg Med 49:273-4. 2007 - E/M coding and the OIG: not so reliable after allBrent R Asplin
Ann Emerg Med 40:275-9. 2002 - Emergency department crowding as a health policy issue: past development, future directionsLynne D Richardson
Department of Emergency Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
Ann Emerg Med 40:388-93. 2002 - Designing a research agenda to improve the quality of emergency careDavid J Magid
Clinical Research Unit, Colorado Permanente Medical Group, Denver, CO 80237 8066, USA
Acad Emerg Med 9:1124-30. 2002..Research to improve the quality of emergency care can benefit from a more systematic consideration of the domains of quality and the research steps necessary to generate evidence and inform quality improvement efforts in practice... - Measuring crowding: time for a paradigm shiftBrent R Asplin
Acad Emerg Med 13:459-61. 2006 - Does ambulance diversion matter?Brent R Asplin
Ann Emerg Med 41:477-80. 2003 - Does improved access to care affect utilization and costs for patients with chronic conditions?Leif I Solberg
HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1524, USA
Am J Manag Care 10:717-22. 2004.... 
Accuracy of staff-initiated emergency department tracking system timestamps in identifying actual event timesBradley D Gordon
Regions Hospital Department of Emergency Medicine, St Paul, MN, USA
Ann Emerg Med 52:504-11. 2008..Managers use timestamps from computerized tracking systems to evaluate emergency department (ED) processes. This study was designed to determine how accurately these timestamps reflect the actual ED events they purport to represent...