When asked in November to select from a list of topics in the RAND report on emergency medicine that you’d most like to see covered as the final installment of ACEP Now’s series on RAND, the majority of ACEP members chose the federal response to emergency department boarding, which received 45 percent of the total 47 votes cast.
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ACEP Now: December 2025 (Digital)However, the topic of EMTALA’s unfunded mandate earned 40 percent of members’ votes, making it a solid second choice among emergency physicians. The other topics suggested were the emergency department as a community’s resilience/infrastructure, which garnered nine percent of the votes; and the emergency medicine nursing workforce, which earned six percent of your total votes.
ACEP Now plans to cover six topics from the RAND report in 2026, including this issue’s focus on Independent Dispute Resolution. Watch our upcoming issues for more coverage on the RAND report and ED boarding.
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