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Title Emergency care and the public's health / edited by Jesse M. Pines, Jameel Abualenain, James Scott, Robert Shesser
Published Hoboken : Wiley, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (232 pages)
Contents The emergency care system in the U.S. / Jesse M. Pines and Jameel Abualenain -- Ten common misconceptions about emergency department care / Dana Kindermann and Robert Shesser -- International perspectives on emergency care / 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 -- Human factors in emergency care / Raj M. Ratwani, A. Zach Hettinger, and Rollin J. Fairbanks -- Information technology in emergency care / Adam Landman and E. Gregory Marchand -- Telehealth and acute care / Sara Paradise, Michael Shu, and Neal Sikka -- Simulation in emergency care / Claudia Ranniger, Keith E. Littlewood -- Emergency care workforce projections / James Scott, Rachelle Pierre-Mathew, and Drew Maurano -- U.S. emergency and disaster response in the past, present, and future : the multi-faceted role of emergency healthcare / Joseph A. Barbera and Anthony G. MacIntyre -- Emergency public health / Rebecca Katz, Anthony MacIntyre, and Joseph Barbera -- The role of the emergency department in care coordination / Emily R. Carrier -- Payment reform in emergency care / Janice Blanchard, Stephanie Donald, and Nathan Seth Trueger -- The legal framework for hospital emergency care / Sara Rosenbaum -- The future of emergency care / Robert Shesser and Dana Kindermann
Summary As US health care systems undergo a period of transformative change, so too will emergency care, and more specifically emergency departments. This transformation will include: The development of new diagnostic, therapeutic, and information technologiesA growing need to prepare and respond to emerging public health threatsThe expansion of the role of allied health professionals to address the workforce crisisNovel expectations for care coordinationThe fundamental economics of emergency care under new payment models, andThe key relation
Notes Chapter 7 Simulation in emergency care
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index
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Subject Emergency medical services -- United States -- Management
Public health -- United States -- Management
Emergency Service, Hospital -- organization & administration
Public Health Practice
Emergency medical services -- Management
Public health -- Management
SUBJECT United States
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
Author Pines, Jesse M., editor
Abualenain, Jameel, 1980- editor.
Scott, James L., editor
Shesser, Robert, editor
ISBN 9781118779781
1118779789
9781306840873
1306840872