Tag: Emergencies / First Aid

Hotline started in July with mental health counselors working around the country and has answered about 8,000 calls a day since then

Administration says it expects to issue updated draft guidance in the coming months

Findings seen among Medicare beneficiaries, with simultaneous increase in share of nonphysician practitioners from 2005 to 2020

Increase started in 2019 and continued through pandemic; hospitalizations increased 57 percent between Fall 2019 and Fall 2020

Benefits include 41 percent lower odds of 30-day use of acute care resources

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

Authors say emergency departments should be prepared to deliver end-of-life care

Those with telehealth follow-up had more repeat emergency department visits and hospital admissions than those having in-person follow-up

Likelihood of presenting to emergency department after sexual assault increased for female, younger, and lower-income individuals

Findings seen among Medicare patients admitted with an emergency general surgery condition