Emergency Care and the Public's Health

Jesse Pines, MD, MBA, MSCE, Director, Office for Clinical Practice Innovation, Professor of Emergency Medicine and Health Policy, The George Washington University, Washington, US Jameel Abualenain, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, The George Washington University, Washington, US; King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia James Scott, MD, Professor of Emergency Medicine and Health Policy, School of Medicine and Health Science, The George Washington University, Washington, US Robert Shesser, MD, MPH, Professor and Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, The George Washington University, Washington, US

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