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Conference Proceedings—Improving the Quality and Efficiency of Emergency Care Across the Continuum: A Systems Approach
Author(s) -
Pines Jesse M.,
Asplin Brent R.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
academic emergency medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.221
H-Index - 124
eISSN - 1553-2712
pISSN - 1069-6563
DOI - 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2011.01085.x
Subject(s) - medicine , emergency department , health care , workflow , agency (philosophy) , emergency medical services , acute care , medical emergency , quality (philosophy) , nursing , management , sociology , social science , philosophy , epistemology , economics , economic growth
ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE 2011; 18:655–661 © 2011 by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Abstract In October 2009, the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) convened a conference held in Boston, Massachusetts, to outline critical issues in emergency care quality and efficiency and to develop a series of research agendas and projects aimed at addressing important questions about how to improve acute, episodic care. The aim of the conference was to describe how hospital‐based emergency department (ED) systems could provide solutions for broader delivery problems in the U.S. health care system. The conference featured keynote speakers Drs. Carolyn Clancy (Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) and Elliott Fisher (Director, Center for Health Policy Research at Dartmouth Medical School). Panels focused on: 1) systems and workflow redesign to improve health care and 2) improving coordination of care for high‐cost patients. Additional sessions were conducted to develop five research agendas on the following topics: 1) health information technology; 2) demand for acute care services; 3) frequent, high‐cost users of emergency care; 4) critical pathways for post–emergency care diagnosis and treatment; and 5) end‐of‐life and palliative care in the ED.