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Timothy C. Peck, MD – Full Interview

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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 Xtra: I Wish that I Had Jesse’s Book

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Jesse Pines is the Chief Clinical Innovation at US Acute Care Solutions and a Clinical Professor and George Washington University and Professor of Emergency Medicine at Drexel University. The authors start by discussing diagnostic testing in the emergency department (ED). There are all wonderful additions to the book.

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Meet the Emergency Physicians Running for Congress

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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

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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.

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ED Boarding

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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.