Emergency Medicine

As most of Washington, D.C. slept during the early hours of Jan. 20, a group of School of Medicine and Health Sciences students made their way to the National Mall to assist with medical aid at the Presidential Inauguration.

Urgent Matters, Philips Blue Jay Consulting, and Schumacher Clinical Partners are pleased to announce the winners of the 2016 Emergency Care Innovation of the Year Award, a competition to foster innovation in emergency departments nationwide.

GW researchers published a Health Affairs study finding that the expansion of Medicaid insurance coverage in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act did not increase hospital emergency department visits, as was widely predicted by policymakers and researchers.

Jesse Pines, M.D., M.B.A., director of the Center for Healthcare Innovation and Policy Research (CHIPR), as well as other GW CHIPR researchers, created a conceptual model for episodes of acute, unscheduled care. The model, published in Annals of Emergency Medicine, will help researchers,…

Urgent Matters, Philips Blue Jay Consulting, and Schumacher Group are now accepting submissions for the 2016 Emergency Care Innovation of the Year Award, a competitive opportunity that fosters innovation in emergency departments nationwide.

Emergency medicine residents visited Capitol Hill to hear panels on the Affordable Care Act, budget forecasting for legislation, and prescription opioid misuse.

Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA), when the heart unexpectedly stops beating, can strike anywhere, anytime. While those with a history of heart disease — such as a previous cardiac arrest, coronary artery disease, or arrhythmia — are most at risk, anyone, even healthy adults or young athletes can…

Jesse M. Pines, M.B.A., M.D., director of the Office for Clinical Practice Innovation and professor of emergency medicine and health policy, co-authored a paper published in Academic Emergency Medicine finding drug shortages affecting emergency care have skyrocketed in the U.S. in recent years..

Jesse M. Pines, M.B.A., M.D., director of the Office for Clinical Practice Innovation and professor of emergency medicine and health policy, co-authored a paper published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine, finding effective interventions to address "boarding" have not been adopted in many…

Jesse M. Pines, M.B.A., M.D., director of the Office for Clinical Practice Innovation and professor of emergency medicine and health policy, co-authored a paper published in Health Affairs, finding the most crowded emergency departments in the U.S. have not adopted proven interventions to address…