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As US health care systems undergo a period of transformative change, so too will emergency care, and more specifically emergency departments. This book explores the complex role of emergency care in the context of these changes and as an increasingly vital component of health care systems both within and outside the US.
List of contents
Editor Biographies, vii
List of Contributors, xi
Foreword, xv
Part 1 The US emergency care system
1 The emergency care system in the United States, 3
Jesse M. Pines and Jameel Abualenain
2 Ten common misconceptions about emergency care, 11
Dana R. Sax and Robert Shesser
3 International perspectives on emergency care, 21
Jameel Abualenain, Drew Richardson, David Mountain, Samuel Vaillancourt, Michael Schull, Phillip Anderson, Eric Revue, Brijal Patel, Ali Pourmand, Hamid Shokoohi, Shingo Hori, Lit-Sin Quek, and Suzanne Mason
Part 2 Technology in emergency care
4 Human factors in emergency care, 47
Raj M. Ratwani, A. Zach Hettinger, and Rollin J. Fairbanks
5 Information technology in emergency care, 59
Adam Landman and E. Gregory Marchand
6 Telehealth and acute care, 75
Sara Paradise, Michael Kee-Ming Shu, and Neal Sikka
7 Simulation in emergency care, 87
Claudia Ranniger and Keith E. Littlewood
Part 3 Emergency care workforce
8 Emergency care workforce projections, 99
James Scott, Rachelle Pierre-Mathew, and Drew Maurano
Part 4 Emergency preparedness and response to emergencies and disasters
9 US emergency and disaster response in the past, present, and future: The multi-faceted role of emergency health care, 113
Joseph A. Barbera and Anthony G. Macintyre
10 Emergency public health, 127
Rebecca Katz, Anthony Macintyre, and Joseph Barbera
Part 5 Emergency care payment reform and legal issues
11 The role of the emergency department in care coordination, 141
Emily R. Carrier
12 Payment reform in emergency care, 151
Janice Blanchard, Stephanie Donald, and Nathan Seth Trueger
13 The legal framework for hospital emergency care, 169
Sara Rosenbaum
14 The future of emergency medicine, 191
Robert Shesser
Index, 201
About the author
Jesse Pines, MD, MBA, MSCE, Director, Office for Clinical Practice Innovation, Professor of Emergency Medicine and Health Policy, The George Washington University, Washington, US
Jameel Abualenain, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, The George Washington University, Washington, US; King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
James Scott, MD, Professor of Emergency Medicine and Health Policy, School of Medicine and Health Science, The George Washington University, Washington, US
Robert Shesser, MD, MPH, Professor and Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, The George Washington University, Washington, US
Summary
As US health care systems undergo a period of transformative change, so too will emergency care, and more specifically emergency departments.
