A Potential Solution to America’s Psychiatric Boarding Crisis
Dr. Elizabeth Wharff was the director of emergency psychiatry at Boston’s Children’s Hospital in the late 1990s…
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A Potential Solution to America’s Psychiatric Boarding Crisis
Dr. Elizabeth Wharff was the director of emergency psychiatry at Boston’s Children’s Hospital in the late 1990s... -
Emergency Dept. Closures Plague Canada’s Emergency Medical Care
Across Canada, under a number of provincial health systems, a spate of closures of emergency departments (EDs)—whether... -
AHRQ Summit on Boarding Made Possible by ACEP Advocacy
After years of explaining the toll of boarding on patient care and physician well-being, the message finally...
Emergency Dept. Closures Plague Canada’s Emergency Medical Care
Across Canada, under a number of provincial health systems, a spate of closures of emergency departments (EDs)—whether…
AHRQ Summit on Boarding Made Possible by ACEP Advocacy
After years of explaining the toll of boarding on patient care and physician well-being, the message finally…
August 2024 News from the College
Impact Report Emphasizes How ACEP Defends You and Demands Better ACEP released its annual Impact Report in…
Interhospital Transfer Capabilities Still Pose Major Issues
Transferring patients from one ED to another hospital is an established part of emergency medicine practice. Patients…
ACEP4U: Defending YOU by Demanding an End to the Boarding Crisis
This fall, ACEP will participate in the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Director’s summit on…
Readers Respond: Ethical Issues in Interhospital Transfers of ED Patients
A national physician on-call data center where hospital on-call lists are published and categorized by location would…
Readers Respond: ED Boarding Tactics and Excited Delirium
Survival Tactics for Emergency Department Boarding (March 2024) We read with interest Dr. Welch’s article on front-end…
Readers Respond: Nitroglycerin, Boarding Tactics, and Acute Urinary Retention
‘Revisiting Nitroglycerin in MI with Right-Side Ventricular Involvement’ (March 2024) Another question to ask is why do…
Ethical Issues in Interhospital Transfers of Emergency Department Patients
Emergency departments (EDs) provide the essential service of evaluating patients with unscheduled, acute, undifferentiated, and decompensated conditions….