- The development of new diagnostic, therapeutic, and information technologies
- A growing need to prepare and respond to emerging public health threats
- The expansion of the role of allied health professionals to address the workforce crisis
- Novel expectations for care coordination
- The fundamental economics of emergency care under new payment models, and
- The key relationship with American law.
Emergency Care and the Public's Health explores the complex role of emergency care in the context of these changes and as an increasingly vital component of health care systems both within and outside the US.
From an expert emergency medicine team, this new title is a reference for emergency care and critical care providers, allied health professionals and hospital administrators. It is also for relevant for public policy and healthcare policy professionals.
Table of Contents
Editor Biographies, vii
List of Contributors, xi
Foreword, xv
Part 1 The US emergency care system
1 The emergency care system in the United States, 3
Jesse M. Pines and Jameel Abualenain
2 Ten common misconceptions about emergency care, 11
Dana R. Sax and Robert Shesser
3 International perspectives on emergency care, 21
Jameel Abualenain, Drew Richardson, David Mountain, Samuel Vaillancourt, Michael Schull, Phillip Anderson, Eric Revue, Brijal Patel, Ali Pourmand, Hamid Shokoohi, Shingo Hori, Lit-Sin Quek, and Suzanne Mason
Part 2 Technology in emergency care
4 Human factors in emergency care, 47
Raj M. Ratwani, A. Zach Hettinger, and Rollin J. Fairbanks
5 Information technology in emergency care, 59
Adam Landman and E. Gregory Marchand
6 Telehealth and acute care, 75
Sara Paradise, Michael Kee-Ming Shu, and Neal Sikka
7 Simulation in emergency care, 87
Claudia Ranniger and Keith E. Littlewood
Part 3 Emergency care workforce
8 Emergency care workforce projections, 99
James Scott, Rachelle Pierre-Mathew, and Drew Maurano
Part 4 Emergency preparedness and response to emergencies and disasters
9 US emergency and disaster response in the past, present, and future: The multi-faceted role of emergency health care, 113
Joseph A. Barbera and Anthony G. Macintyre
10 Emergency public health, 127
Rebecca Katz, Anthony Macintyre, and Joseph Barbera
Part 5 Emergency care payment reform and legal issues
11 The role of the emergency department in care coordination, 141
Emily R. Carrier
12 Payment reform in emergency care, 151
Janice Blanchard, Stephanie Donald, and Nathan Seth Trueger
13 The legal framework for hospital emergency care, 169
Sara Rosenbaum
14 The future of emergency medicine, 191
Robert Shesser
Index, 201
