How do prudent laypeople define an emergency medical condition?

Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 413-418

  Derlet, Robert W ^a   Ledesma, Alicia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Access; Care; EMTALA; Managed care; Prudent laypeople

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BLEEDING; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX PAIN; VOMITING;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CALIFORNIA; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PUBLIC OPINION; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 0032956275     PISSN: 07364679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0736-4679(99)00014-1     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Wolcott B.W. What is an emergency? Depends on whom you ask. JACEP. 8:1979;241-243.
2. Chan T.C., Hayden S.R., Schwartz B., et al. Patients' satisfaction when denied authorization for emergency department care by their managed care plan. J Emerg Med. 15:1997;611-616.
3. Derlet R.W., Hamilton B. The impact of HMO care authorization policy on an ED before California's new managed care law. Acad Emerg Med. 3:1996;338-344.
4. The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act:42 U. S. C. 1395 dd (1986). Pub. L. no. 99-272, 9121, 1986.
5. Fed Reg. June 22, 1994:32086-127.
6. California State Law. Administrative Code Title 22. Section 51056. 1995.
7. Derlet R.W. Locked gates profit and pain . Acad Emerg Med. 4:1997;1099-1100.
8. Johnson L.A., Derlet R.W. Conflicts between managed care organizations and emergency departments in California. West J Med. 164:1996;137-142.
9. Derlet R.W., Young G.P. Managed care and emergency medicine conflicts, federal law, and California legislation . Ann Emerg Med. 30:1997;292-300.
10. Prudent layperson continues to raise questions for MCOs. ACEP News; Dallas: American College of Emergency Physicians. 1998;17:2:3.
11. Prudent layperson effort reaches new heights in 1998. ACEP News. Dallas: American College of Emergency Physicians. 1998;17:4:1.
12. Larkin G.L., Adams J.G., Derse A.R., et al. Managed care ethics an emergency? Ann Emerg Med. 28:1996;683-689.
13. Young G.P., Lowe R.A. Adverse outcomes of managed care gatekeeping. Acad Emerg Med. 4:1997;1129-1136.
14. Derlet R.W., Kinser D.J., Ray L., et al. Prospective identification and triage of nonemergent patients out of an ED. Ann Emerg Med. 25:1995;215-223.
15. Park L.J., Merigian K.S., Fulbright V. Success of a triage-out program in a large public teaching hospital. Acad Emer Med. 3:1996;499. (abstract).
16. Hunt R.C., DeHart K.L., Allison E.J., et al. Patient and physician perception of need for emergency medical care a prospective and retrospective analysis . Am J Emer Med. 14:1996;635-639.
17. Baker D.W., Stevens C.D., Brook R.H. Determinants of emergency department use by ambulatory patients at an urban public hospital. Ann Emer Med. 25:1995;311-316.
18. Grumbach K., Keane D., Bindman A. Primary care and public emergency department overcrowding. Am J Public Health. 83:1993;372-378.
19. Caterino J.M., Holliman C.J. Underestimation of disease severity by ED patients implications for managed care . Ann Emer Med. 30:1997;392-393.