Tag: Emergencies / First Aid
988 Mental Health Hotline Back in Business After Daylong Outage
Hotline started in July with mental health counselors working around the country and has answered about 8,000 calls a day since then
FDA Moves to Ease Restrictions on Gay Men Giving Blood
Administration says it expects to issue updated draft guidance in the coming months
Nonphysician Emergency Practitioners Order More Imaging Studies
Findings seen among Medicare beneficiaries, with simultaneous increase in share of nonphysician practitioners from 2005 to 2020
Emergency Visits for Child Suicidal Ideation Increased in Illinois in 2019
Increase started in 2019 and continued through pandemic; hospitalizations increased 57 percent between Fall 2019 and Fall 2020
Postdischarge Text Message Intervention Cuts Readmissions
Benefits include 41 percent lower odds of 30-day use of acute care resources
America’s Emergency Physicians Warn of Surge in Patients Due to ‘Tripledemic’
A coalition of health and medical groups has called on the White House to hold a summit on ongoing problems facing U.S. emergency departments
Death Common During, Within One Month of Emergency Visit
Authors say emergency departments should be prepared to deliver end-of-life care
ED Telehealth Follow-Up May Increase Subsequent Health Care Utilization
Those with telehealth follow-up had more repeat emergency department visits and hospital admissions than those having in-person follow-up
Sexual Assault-Related ED Visits Up in the U.S. From 2006 to 2019
Likelihood of presenting to emergency department after sexual assault increased for female, younger, and lower-income individuals
Rates of Surgical Consults Lower for Black Patients
Findings seen among Medicare patients admitted with an emergency general surgery condition
