Here are the seven latest stories on emergency department care and quality compiled from Becker's Hospital Review, starting with the most recent.
1. The accuracy of medical reconciliation in an emergency department increased when pharmacists led the process, according to preliminary data results reported in MedPage Today.
2. Health information exchanges across unaffiliated hospitals may help identify frequent emergency department users, according to a study in Health Affairs.
3. A shortage of quality emergency department data is preventing emergency departments from improving quality care, according to a Health Affairs report.
4. Frequent emergency department users also frequently use other sources of care, such as primary and specialty care, according to an article in Health Affairs.
5. Emergency departments with "type 1" observation units have lower costs, lengths of stay and readmission rates, according to a study in Health Affairs.
6. Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York used a bed-tracking technology to reduce emergency department admission wait times by one hour for half of its patients, according to a BBC report.
7. In rural emergency departments, medical errors occurred in only 3.4 percent of patients who received a video-based telemedicine consultation, compared to occurring in 12.5 percent of patients who did not receive any telemedicine consultation, according to a study in Pediatrics.
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