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Assessment of Medicare's imaging efficiency measure for emergency department patients with atraumatic headacheJeremiah D Schuur
Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Ann Emerg Med 60:280-90.e4. 2012..We aim to determine the reliability, validity, and accuracy of OP-15...
Measuring quality of care in syncope: case definition affects reported electrocardiogram use but does not bias reportingJeremiah D Schuur
Veterans Administration Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, CT, USA
Acad Emerg Med 16:40-9. 2009....
Critical pathways for post-emergency outpatient diagnosis and treatment: tools to improve the value of emergency careJeremiah 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...
Pregnancy testing in women of reproductive age in US emergency departments, 2002 to 2006: assessment of a national quality measureJeremiah 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)...
Effect of oral contrast for abdominal computed tomography on emergency department length of stayJeremiah D Schuur
Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
Emerg Radiol 17:267-73. 2010..Adjusted LOS decreased from 324 min (312-337) to 297 min (285-309). Not routinely requiring oral contrast for CTAP in the ED is associated with a half-hour reduction in LOS among all patients undergoing CTAP...
The impact of Medicaid coverage and reimbursement on access to diagnostic mammographyJeremiah D Schuur
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, West Haven, Connecticut, USA
Cancer 115:5566-78. 2009..The objective of the current study was to determine the association between reported insurance type (Medicaid vs Medicare), Medicaid reimbursement rate, and access to diagnostic mammography (DM)...
Making greater use of dedicated hospital observation units for many short-stay patients could save $3.1 billion a yearChristopher W Baugh
Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 31:2314-23. 2012..6 million, and national cost savings would be $3.1 billion. Future policies intended to increase the cost-efficiency of hospital care should include support for observation unit care as an alternative to short-stay inpatient admission...
Infection and natural history of emergency department-placed central venous cathetersChristopher H LeMaster
Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Ann Emerg Med 56:492-7. 2010..We design a retrospective chart review methodology to determine bloodstream infection and duration of catheterization for central venous catheters placed in the ED...
Episodes of care: is emergency medicine ready?Jennifer L Wiler
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, USA
Ann Emerg Med 59:351-7. 2012..We then describe a meaningful role for emergency medicine in an episode of care setting...
Predictors of hand hygiene in the emergency departmentArjun K Venkatesh
Brigham and Women s Hospital Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 32:1120-3. 2011..7% over 5,865 opportunities. Observation unit, hallway or high-visibility location, glove use, and worker type predicted worse HH. Hallway location was the strongest predictor (relative risk, 88.9% [95% confidence interval, 85.9%-92.1%])...
Parametric versus nonparametric statistical tests: the length of stay exampleMunirih Qualls
Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Acad Emerg Med 17:1113-21. 2010..The demonstration shows how inappropriate analysis of ED LOS increases the probability of type II errors...
Estimates of electronic medical records in U.S. Emergency departmentsBenjamin P Geisler
Institute for Technology Assessment, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
PLoS ONE 5:e9274. 2010..We analyze data from a nationally representative sample of US EDs to ascertain the adoption of various EMR functionalities...
The time burden of alcohol-based hand cleanser when using nonsterile glovesJoseph M Reardon
Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 34:96-8. 2013..We report gloving episodes per hour, gloving times with and without handrub, and handrub recommendations compliance. Handrub adds 46 seconds to each glove-use episode, and we provide national extrapolations...
Emergency department utilization after the implementation of Massachusetts health reformPeter B Smulowitz
Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Ann Emerg Med 58:225-234.e1. 2011..Our objective is to determine the relationship between health reform and ED use for low-severity conditions...
Medication errors recovered by emergency department pharmacistsJeffrey M Rothschild
Division of General Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Ann Emerg Med 55:513-21. 2010..We assess the impact of emergency department (ED) pharmacists on reducing potentially harmful medication errors...
A mixed-methods study of the quality of care provided to patients boarding in the emergency department: comparing emergency department and inpatient responsibility modelsShan W Liu
1Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Med Care Res Rev 69:679-98. 2012..A theoretically better responsibility model may not deliver better care to boarded patients because of cultural, resource prioritization, and systems issues...
Can paramedics read ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction on prehospital 12-lead electrocardiograms?Ketan Trivedi
Section of Emergency Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 13:207-14. 2009..Objective. To determine whether paramedics can accurately diagnose STEMI on a prehospital 12-lead ECG and decide to activate the cardiac catheterization laboratory appropriately...
The role of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine in the development of guidelines and performance measuresJesse M Pines
Department of Emergency Medicine, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA
Acad Emerg Med 17:e130-40. 2010....
