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Journal Club - Emergency Department Initiated Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder

Downeast Emergency Medicine

While the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to overdose deaths and taxed constrained Emergency Department (ED) resources, it has also clarified the important role that emergency physicians have in expanding access to life-saving medications to treat opioid use disorder. Annals of Emergency Medicine.

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2023 ACEP Elections Preview: Meet the President-Elect and Council Officer Candidates

ACEP Now

How does that apply to the role of the board certified emergency physician? Fundamentally, I believe every patient coming to an emergency department is best served by care delivered by board certified emergency physicians. When those same fundamentals done right achieve great success, they aren’t little at all.

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SGEM#333: Do you gotta be starting something – like tPA before EVT?

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Garreth Debiegun is an emergency physician at Maine Medical Center in Portland, ME and clinical assistant professor with Tufts University School of Medicine. He also works at an urgent care and a rural critical access hospital. first appeared on The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine.

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Emergency Medicine Deserves to “Re-Brand” Itself as a Cost Saver

ACEP Now

Emergency physicians have earned the right to “re-brand” ourselves as indispensable, money-saving change agents in the health care enterprise. Of course, the bill for any episode of emergency department (ED) care can be substantial, exceeding the billed charges for equivalent care provided in some primary care offices.

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The Private Equity Wave in Health Care

ACEP Now

Still, this wave of private equity acquisitions in emergency medicine has come crashing down on the heads of many early-career physicians. As of 2022, 1 in 4 emergency departments in the United States were staffed by a private equity-owned physician group.

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ED Boarding

ACEP Now

In November 2022, the American College of Emergency Physicians sent a letter to President Biden on behalf of 34 organizations, asking to convene stakeholders to identify solutions to address the emergency department (ED) boarding crisis.1 The effect of emergency department crowding on clinically oriented outcomes.