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Hospital Leadership is Essential To Breaking Up Emergency Department Gridlock LAS VEGAS, Sept. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- When emergency patients who are "boarded," or held in the emergency department after admission to the hospital, reaches a certain threshold, the rate of other patients leaving without medical treatment increases "significantly," according to research presented at the annual meeting of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP). Additional research shows...

African-American, Hispanic patients less likely to be categorized as needing urgent careThe well-documented disparities in cardiac care may begin almost as soon as patients arrive at hospital emergency rooms. In a study published in Academic Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers report that African-American and Hispanic patients assessed for chest pain were less likely than white patients to be categorized as requiring immediate care, despite a lack of...

ATLANTA, Sept. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Broadspire, a Crawford Company (NYSE: CRDA; CRDB) and leading third party administrator (TPA) and medical management services provider, is proud to announce that Gary Anderberg, Ph.D., practice leader for analytics and outcomes, has been named a winner of Risk & Insurance magazine's 2010 Risk Innovator awards. Anderberg was nominated for his work as a leader with Broadspire's e-Triage system, which helps analyze claims that might become outliers in...

ATLANTA, Sept. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Broadspire, a Crawford Company (NYSE: CRDA; CRDB) and leading third party administrator (TPA) and medical management services provider, is proud to announce that Gary Anderberg, Ph.D., practice leader for analytics and outcomes, has been named a winner of Risk & Insurance magazine's 2010 Risk Innovators award. Anderberg was nominated for his work as a leader with Broadspire's e-Triage system, which helps analyze claims that might become outliers in...

BETHESDA, Md., Aug. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- BrainScope Company, Inc. today announced the publication of clinical research findings from a study in patients presenting to the Emergency Department (ED) following a closed head injury. The study published in the peer-reviewed journal Brain Injury, the official journal of the International Brain Injury Association, entitled "Use of brain electrical activity to quantify traumatic brain injury in the emergency department", suggests BrainScope's...

Emergency room waiting times could be cut by over one third and patients' length of stay by almost two-thirds, thanks to a new approach to the triage process of sorting patients for further assessment and treatment, according to research published in the International Journal of Six Sigma and Competitive Advantage this month.Nabeel Mandahawi of The Hashemite University in Zarqa, Jordan and colleagues have turned to a design strategy known as Six Sigma commonly used by engineers and...

JERUSALEM and NEEDHAM, Massachusetts, August 17, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Oridion (SIX Swiss Exchange: ORIDN), creator of the Smart Capnography(TM) family of algorithm-based solutions, today announced that it will present the results of a new study involving its flagship Smart Capnography technology - Integrated Pulmonary Index(TM) (IPI) - at the Advanced Technology Applications for Combat Causality Care Conference (ATACCC). "Pilot Evaluation of the Integrated Pulmonary Index...

WASHINGTON, July 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Patients who are not proficient in English and provided with professionally trained, in-person interpreters in the emergency department report higher satisfaction with their communication in the ER, as do the physicians treating them, according to the results of a randomized controlled trial released this week online in Annals of Emergency Medicine ("Examining Effectiveness of Medical Interpreters in Emergency Departments for Spanish-Speaking...

SOUTH BEND, Ind., July 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Patients at U.S. hospitals are experiencing the longest wait times in emergency departments since reports were first made available in 2002, according to Press Ganey Associates, Inc., the health care industry's leading provider of quality improvement solutions. From the moment patients walk into a hospital emergency room until the time they are discharged from the emergency department, the average time spent was four hours and seven minutes in 2009...

WASHINGTON, June 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new report from HealthGrades analyzes mortality data from the records of Medicare patients who were admitted in hospitals across the United States, but is not a measure of emergency care, according to the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP). "Efforts to gather data on emergency medicine are critical, especially as the nation embarks on health care reform," said Dr. Angela Gardner, president of ACEP. "This new report makes several...