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ERs staffed by private equity firms aim to cut costs by hiring fewer doctors

NPR Health - Shots

Increasingly, private equity firms shape staffing decisions at hospital emergency rooms, research shows. One apparent effect: Hiring fewer doctors and more health care practitioners who earn far less. Image credit: Phil Fisk/Image Source via Getty Images)

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Overall medication adherence as an indicator for health outcomes among elderly patients with hypertension and diabetes [Diabetes and endocrine disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objectives To assess overall medication adherence as an indicator for emergency room (ER) visits, hospitalizations, and mortality among elderly patients. We retrieved information on all ER visits and hospitalizations in internal medicine and surgical wards from 2017 to 2019 and mortality in 2019.

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Pay up, kid? An ER's error sends a 4-year-old to collections

NPR Health - Shots

A Florida woman tried to dispute an emergency room bill, but the hospital and collection agency refused to talk to her — because it was her child's name on the bill, not hers. Image credit: Zack Wittman/KHN)

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Patient Testimonial – Austin Ault

Logansport Memorial Hospital

For Austin Ault, he felt reassured during his time at Logansport Memorial, knowing that our dedicated team was alongside him every step of the way, including the Emergency Room , Medical/Surgical, Surgery , and Orthopedics. My wife brought me to the ER where I was assessed and referred to Orthopedics.

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It's Not About The Pus

StorytellERdoc

Suddenly, my job as an ER physician was boring. I know there are many more invasive procedures we perform in the ER that could be considered similar, but I couldn't think of them quickly enough. Yes, the ER gets busy. I've witness it firsthand for 22 years as an ER attending physician. Eewww, gross," Emma said.

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Inside the 'tridemic': North Philly children struggling to breathe are waiting hours to be seen at the ER

Medical Xpress

Raspy cries and barky coughs echoed across the emergency room at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children on a recent chilly morning in North Philadelphia. Kids had just started to stream into the waiting room, yet every available bed was already filled.

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Exposure to high-priority drug-drug interactions among non-elderly adults in Quebec: a cohort study [Prescribing and pharmacotherapeutics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Dataset: Quebec administrative health databases containing de-identified prescription drug claims, ER visits, hospitalizations, and medical acts held by the National Institute for Excellence in Health and Social Services (INESSS) were used. 2) Hazard ratio for an adverse event (emergency room visit, hospitalization, or death).