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ACEP Poll Reveals Popular Emergency Medicine Topics to Discuss at Council Meeting

By ACEP Now | on July 15, 2015 | 1 Comment
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ACEP Councillors were asked whether or not they feel certain topics should be addressed at the Council meeting in Boston this October.

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Here are the results:

1. Single payer health care system
No 57.8% | Yes 42.2%
2. Alternate membership categories for physicians not board certified in EM
No 27% | Yes 73%
3. Alternate membership categories for non-physician providers in EM
No 23.1% | Yes 76.9%

4. Psychiatric patient boarding
No 13.3% | Yes 86.7%
5. Safe harbors for tort reform
No 13.5% | Yes 86.5%
6. Legalization or decriminalization of marijuana
No 88.7% | Yes 11.3%

7. Providing resources for palliative care in the ED
No 23.4% | Yes 76.6%
8. Readmission prevention strategies
No 21.7% | Yes 78.3%
9. ED opioid prescribing
No 30% | Yes 70%

10. Paramedicine
No 36.9% | Yes 63.1%
11. Patient satisfaction
No 29.7% | Yes 70.3%
12. Gun control
No 67.4% | Yes 32.6%

13. EMTALA
No 26.2% | Yes 73.8%
14. Medicaid professional fees
No 19.8% | Yes 80.2%
15. Career transitions for older emergency physicians
No 36.7% | Yes 63.3%

16. GME funding and position/slot allocations
No 16.7% | Yes 83.3%
17. CMS 2 midnight rule
No 31.6% | Yes 68.4%
18. CMS 3-day stay rule
No 32.8% | Yes 67.2%

19. Advanced practice provider scope of practice
No 15.9% | Yes 84.1%
20. Maintenance of Licensure
No 33.1% | Yes 66.9%
21. Maintenance of Certification
No 25% | Yes 75%

22. Plaintiff expert witness testimony
No 30.8% | Yes 69.2%
23. Prescription drug monitoring programs
No 29.5 | Yes 70.5%
24. Telemedicine/Telehealth
No 25.3% | Yes 74.7%

Topics: ACEPACEP CouncilACEP PollAmerican College of Emergency PhysiciansEmergency Medicine

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One Response to “ACEP Poll Reveals Popular Emergency Medicine Topics to Discuss at Council Meeting”

  1. July 26, 2015

    J. Michael Albrich Reply

    You might poll the general ED physician population about guns and single payer. DO we have particularly right wing Councilors?

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