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Emergency Room vs. Urgent Care

Center for Family Medicine (CFM)

When sudden illness or injury strikes, knowing whether to head to the emergency room or an urgent care clinic can make all the difference—both in terms of your health and your wallet. While both facilities provide immediate medical attention, they serve very different purposes and handle varying levels of injuries and illness.

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Cancer survivors with transportation barriers to care face risk for emergency room use and mortality, new study shows

Medical Xpress

New research from scientists at the American Cancer Society (ACS) and Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center has found delayed care due to lack of transportation is associated with increased emergency room (ER) use and mortality risk among adults with and without cancer history.

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When to Go to Urgent Care for a Sore Throat: How Can Urgent Care Help?

Doctor On Demand

Here’s a closer look at the red-flag symptoms that signal it’s time to visit urgent care for a sore throat: Severe sore throat or trouble swallowing A severe sore throat or trouble swallowing suggests you might have a more complex underlying cause needing urgent medical attention. These symptoms require immediate medical attention.

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

The idea was to create a robust community-based infrastructure that could help older adults succeed in their homes and communities, whether they were healthy, how to keep them healthy or they were at imminent risk of emergency room visits, hospitalizations, or nursing home placements. They’re afraid of losing their independence.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

But for other- Diane: And it’s on the medical side. So I think what’s really exciting is that these community-based organizations, some of those groups that provide training, transportation, respite care, all of that was never included. Malaz: … they have to do medication management. And guess what?

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

And we then did a bunch of work to develop medical criteria, to choose the right patients for hospital-at-home. We would find these people in the hospital, and we said, “What would you have thought if someone had come up to you in the emergency room yesterday, and said, ‘Hey, instead of going upstairs, you could go home.’

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