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Meet the Emergency Physicians Running for Congress

ACEP Now

testifying before Congress to advocate for telemedicine and value based care. There’s no hard line for how many hours you should be measured on in terms of boarding or in terms of how long you’re in the emergency department. Right now, there’s no incentive to get people out of the emergency department by hospital administrators.

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SGEM#308: Taking Care of Patients Everyday with Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Corey Heitz is an emergency physician in Roanoke, Virginia. He is also the CME editor for Academic Emergency Medicine. The impact of advanced practice provider staffing on emergency department care: productivity, flow, safety, and experience. He is also the CME editor for Academic Emergency Medicine.

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PEM Currents – Agitation in Children – Episode 5: The Boarded ED Patient

EMDocs

And now we’re here at our destination, the place we know and love, the emergency room to talk about what we should be doing for the growing volume of children with mental health problems boarding in the emergency department.