Clinicians & Providers

• Comparing National Institutes of Health Funding of Emergency Medicine to Four Medical Specialties
• Defining and Measuring Successful Emergency Care Networks: A Research Agenda
• Defining the Emergency Care Sensitive Condition: A Health Policy Research Agenda in Emergency Medicine
• Derivation and Reliability of an Instrument To Estimate Medical Benefit of Emergency Treatment
• Idealized Models or Incremental Program Evaluation: Translating Emergency Department HIV Testing into Practice
• Lower Mortality in Sepsis Patients Admitted Through the ED vs Direct Admission
• Lower mortality in Sepsis Patients Admitted through the ED vs Direct Admission
• Multicenter Study of Preferences for Health Education in the Emergency Department Population
• Nystagmus Assessments Documented by Emergency Physicians in Acute Dizziness Presentations: a Target for Decision Support?
• Patient-centered Integrated Networks of Emergency Care: Consensus-based Recommendations and Future Research Priorities
• Quality of Care for Acute Myocardial Infarction in 58 U.S. Emergency Departments
• Research Priorities for Palliative and End-of-life Care in the Emergency Setting
• Strategies for Implementing Emergency Department Pharmacy Services: Results from the 2007 ASHP Patient Care Impact Program
• The Effect of Triage Diagnostic Standing Orders on Emergency Department Treatment Time

Hospital & Health System Resources

• Comparing National Institutes of Health Funding of Emergency Medicine to Four Medical Specialties
• Defining and Measuring Successful Emergency Care Networks: A Research Agenda
• Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Statistical Brief #152
• Improving Patient Flow and Reducing Emergency Department Crowding
• Multicenter Study of Preferences for Health Education in the Emergency Department Population
• Patient-centered Integrated Networks of Emergency Care: Consensus-based Recommendations and Future Research Priorities

Policymaker Resources

• Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Statistical Brief #152
• Patient Medical Group Continuity and Healthcare Utilization

Fact Sheets

March 22 2013 20130322

Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Statistical Brief #152

Full Research Reports

September 1 2012 20120901

Improving Patient Flow and Reducing Emergency Department Crowding

Other Research & Data

• Bon Secours St. Mary's Hospital
• Capital Health Influenced by AHRQ's Project RED in Creating Tool for Patients
• Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital
• Cleveland Clinic Health System Facility Implements AHRQ's Emergency Severity Index
• Comparing National Institutes of Health Funding of Emergency Medicine to Four Medical Specialties
• Defining the Emergency Care Sensitive Condition: A Health Policy Research Agenda in Emergency Medicine
• Fairview Southdale Hospital
• Lower mortality in Sepsis Patients Admitted through the ED vs Direct Admission
• Methodist Healthcare Hospital
• Nystagmus Assessments Documented by Emergency Physicians in Acute Dizziness Presentations: a Target for Decision Support?
• Patient Medical Group Continuity and Healthcare Utilization
• Patient-centered Integrated Networks of Emergency Care: Consensus-based Recommendations and Future Research Priorities
• Research Priorities for Palliative and End-of-life Care in the Emergency Setting
• Suburban Hospital
• University of Kentucky HealthCare Improves Emergency Care Using Door-to-Doc Toolkit
• Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center

Press Releases

March 28 2011 20110328

Low Health Literacy Linked to Higher Risk of Death and More Emergency Room Visits and Hospitalizations

News & Numbers

September 1 2011 20110901

More Than 20,000 Emergency Room Visits for Air and Paintball Gun Injuries in 2008

June 16 2011 20110616

Six of Every 10 Rural Emergency Departments Visits Made by Poor Patients

May 12 2011 20110512

More Rural Americans Treated in Emergency Departments for Eye Injuries

February 2 2011 20110202

Aching Back Sends More Than 3 Million to Emergency Departments

November 18 2010 20101118

Rates of Hospital Emergency Department Use Greater Among Women and Low-Income, Older, and Rural Americans

July 8 2010 20100708

Mental Disorders and/or Substance Abuse Related to One of Every Eight Emergency Department Cases

January 13 2010 20100113

Emergency Departments Treat 3.5 Million Crash Victims a Year

Other News & Events

• AHRQ Patient Safety Project Reduces Bloodstream Infections by 40 Percent
• AHRQ releases 2007 hospital emergency department data
• Aching back sends more than 3 million to emergency departments
• Admission Rates from Emergency Departments Vary Widely
• Admission rates from emergency departments vary widely
• Better adherence to diabetes medications means fewer hospitalizations and emergency department visits
• Certain patients with lupus are more likely to end up in the emergency department three or more times a year
• Computer system compares well with clinicians in assessing, but not treating children with asthma
• EMS transport is underused by patients with a certain type of heart attack
• Emergency department patients and visitors are most interested in education about stress and depression
• Emergency department treatment of asthma with systemic corticosteroids is not always timely
• Emergency departments have increasingly become the health care safety net for adults insured by Medicaid
• Emergency departments treat 3.5 million crash victims a year
• Emergency physicians suggest ways to reduce errors in patient handoffs during shift changes
• Fewer than 1 in 5 emergency departments implement recommendations for HIV screening
• Fragmentation of care for complex diabetes patients may be associated with greater use of the emergency department
• HCUP 2010 NEDS database now available
• HCUP Releases 2008 Nationwide Emergency Department Sample
• HCUP releases 2009 Nationwide Emergency Department Sample
• Helicopter transport to trauma centers improves patient survival over ambulance transport
• Hospital emergency departments get tips from AHRQ on how to reduce crowding and better triage patients
• Hospitals vary greatly in the quality of their trauma care
• ICU scoring system better predicts the risk of death for trauma patients
• Individuals who seek care for coughs and colds in emergency departments have social support
• Intravenous fentanyl can be given safely to trauma patients for pain in the prehospital setting
• Learning networks can help implement strategies to improve emergency department patient flow
• Leaving the emergency department without being seen more likely at hospitals that serve more low-income patients
• Length of stays in emergency departments varies considerably
• MEPS respondents underreport emergency department and office visits, but accurately report hospital stays
• Many non-oral medications appear to effectively treat acute migraines in emergency department patients
• Mental disorders and/or substance abuse related to one of every eight emergency department cases
• More rural Americans treated in emergency departments for eye injuries
• More than 20,000 emergency room visits for air and paintball gun injuries in 2008
• Nearly one-third of emergency department visits involve nonideal care events
• New rule on when to have a trauma surgeon meet a transported trauma patient is found more sensitive than existing criteria
• Over 3 million look to hospitals for headache relief
• Overcrowding in emergency departments increases the risk of preventable medical errors
• Pain management in emergency departments has improved but can still be better
• Parents and primary care physicians are satisfied with children's use of nonurgent emergency department services
• Patient flow strategies may help to address emergency department crowding
• Patient gender does not influence the management or diagnosis of acute abdominal pain in the elderly, but affects outcome
• Patients taking only salmeterol seen in the emergency department for asthma more likely to be hospitalized
• Patients transferred to the intensive care unit within 24 hours of admission
• Patients treated for heart failure in the emergency department fare better if there is an electronic health record available
• Patients with sepsis fare better when admitted via the emergency department rather than directly to the hospital
• Pediatric emergency department visits surged during the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic, but few children were hospitalized
• Pelvic ultrasound imaging by emergency physicians is highly effective in ruling out ectopic pregnancy
• Primary care doctors often don't know that a child sought care for asthma in the emergency department
• Rates of emergency department use greater among women and low-income, older, and rural Americans
• Routine opt-out HIV emergency department screening only slightly improves identification of patients with HIV infection
• Six of every 10 rural emergency departments visits made by poor patients
• Study characterizes patients receiving out-of-hospital endotracheal intubation
• The quality of children's asthma care is affected by emergency department crowding
• Trauma patients often receive repeat CT imaging that increases radiation exposure and costs
• Trauma triage system tends to overestimate injury severity
• Uninsured and Medicaid-insured emergency department patients are more likely to accept the screening than commercially insured patients
• Use of bedside ultrasound by hospital emergency departments is not yet common practice
• Variations exist in cardiac arrest care provided by emergency medical personnel