emergency medicine

Study suggests that emergency department clinicians squander an opportunity to divert opioid overdose patients toward drug and mental health therapies...

The model will give providers the option of treating Medicare FFS patients at the scene, or using telehealth, and to...

Physician says hospitals are too tolerant of assaultive behavior by patients and their loved ones.

For many cancer patients, the causes of unanticipated hospital stays in the first year after receiving a diagnosis are unrelated...

Mayo Clinic develops handoff tool for potentially violent patients that features exchange of behavioral information between care teams.

Sudden cardiac arrest is a leading cause of death and some hospitals are equipped to play leading role in care.

Sleep deprivation and fatigue have plagued emergency room physicians for decades but apparent widespread use of sleeping aid medications entails...

In less than 5 minutes, the Shock Index assessment can gauge the severity of a patient's condition.

Hospitals should keep an eye on state and federal efforts to ramp up consumer protections against surprise medical bills.

Health systems can use obstetrics department collaboratives and ER interventions to save mothers' lives.

A police officer and the shooter were killed as well in an attack that sent the hospital's ER into chaos...

Many behavioral health patients boarded in emergency departments are discharged after an inpatient bed request has been made.