Emergency care and the public's health / / edited by Jesse M. Pines [and three others] ; Jameel Abualenain [and thirty six others], contributors

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910809348503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chichester, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 1-118-77979-7; 1-118-77975-4; 1-118-77978-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (232 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.18068
• Soggetti: Emergency medical services
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 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 relation