New Out-Of-Hospital Care Models Could Affect Your Emergency Dept
“Whoop, whoop, whoop!” The EMS radio alerts the ED staff to an incoming patient. Minutes later arrives…
About James J. Augustine, MD, FACEP
James J. Augustine, MD, FACEP, is director of clinical operations at EMP in Canton, Ohio; clinical associate professor of Emergency Medicine at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio; vice president of the Emergency Department Benchmarking Alliance; and on the ACEP Board of Directors.
Posts by James J. Augustine, MD, FACEP
Identify and Plan for Your Emergency Department’s Particular Patient Mix
One of the critical roles of the emergency department is to provide unscheduled care to all persons,…
Emergency Department Inefficiency Drives Poor Quality
Emergency departments face significant challenges in patient management and concomitant increases in regulatory and reporting requirements. Some…
Injury in the Mix: Changing Nature of ED Patients
You have probably noted in your practice that injured patients are not presenting to the emergency department…
Return ED Visits: Poor Performance or Flawed Metric?
As part of the triple aim, there is a very concerted effort to develop markers of high-quality…
Emergency Department Volume Increase Trend Continues Into 2014
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released its ongoing statistical survey of emergency department…
More Advanced Practice Providers Working in Emergency Departments
The management of patients in the emergency department requires skilled staff members working as a team to…
Emergency Departments Need Plan to Deal with Drug Shortages
In recent years, there have been countless unprecedented, unexpected, and unplanned short-term medication shortages and ever more…
Diagnostic Testing in the ED Supports Development of New Metrics as Quality Indicators
Emergency departments have appropriately developed a role as the diagnostic and treatment center of excellence (and availability)…
Long-Term Trends in Emergency Department Visits, Patient Care Highlighted in National Reports
Emergency physicians and emergency department leaders face an important time in determining how to serve the needs…