The Emergency Department: Rethinking the safety net for the safety net

Health Affairs

Volumn 23, Issue SUPPL., 2004, Pages

  Siegel, Bruce ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY CARE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; FIRST AID; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LAW; SAFETY; SHORT SURVEY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 4644340229     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.W4.146     Document Type: Short Survey

References (7)

1. U.S. General Accounting Office, Hospital Emergency Departments: Crowded Conditions Vary among Hospitals and Communities, Pub. no. GAO-03-460 (Washington: GAO, 14 March 2003); and American Hospital Association, Emergency Department Overload: A Growing Crisis, April 2002, www.hospitalconnect.com/aha/ press_room-info/content/EdoCrisisSlides.pdf (3 February 2004).
2. U.S. General Accounting Office, Hospital Emergency Departments: Crowded Conditions Vary among Hospitals and Communities, Pub. no. GAO-03-460 (Washington: GAO, 14 March 2003); and American Hospital Association, Emergency Department Overload: A Growing Crisis, April 2002, www.hospitalconnect.com/aha/ press_room-info/content/EdoCrisisSlides.pdf (3 February 2004).
3. G.A. Melnick et al., "Emergency Department Capacity and Access in California, 1990-2001: An Economic Analysis," Health Affairs, 24 March 2004, content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/hlthaff.w4.136 (24 March 2004).
4. A.J. Forster et al., "The Effect of Hospital Occupancy on Emergency Department Length of Stay and Patient Disposition," Academic Emergency Medicine 10, no. 2 (2003): 127-133; and GAO, Hospital Emergency Departments.
5. "The Shifting Burden of Emergency Care," New York Times, 3 February 2004.
6. P.J. Cunningham and J.H. May, "Insured Americans Drive Surge in Emergency Department Visits," Issue Brief no. 70 (Washington: Center for Studying Health System Change, October 2003).
7. J. Billings, N. Parikh, and T. Mijanovich, "Emergency Room Use: The New York Story," Issue Brief (New York: Commonwealth Fund, November 2000); and unpublished data on ED use at ten hospitals, Urgent Matters Program, George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, January 2004.