Retail clinics have a role as a convenient place to obtain needed healthcare but so far have not made a meaningful impact on low acuity ED patient volume.

The ACA Medicaid expansion has had multiple effects: more ED visits, fewer uninsured patients in the ED, and perhaps more choices where to seek hospital care.

A city-wide plan of care for frequent ED users for pain-related complaints decreased the number of visits and opiate prescriptions.

We can learn how to spot human trafficking in the ED and do our part to end it.  This article tells you how.

Up to 40% of pediatric ED transfers were potentially avoidable and cost families an extra $900.

Kids with no insurance had almost 4 times the odds of being transferred, instead of admitted at the initial facility.  I smell a rat.

No mass shootings have occurred in Australia since the gun ban in 1996.

Short Attention Span Summary I know this is a hot button issue, but in light of the recent mass shooting in Orlando this article from March in the Lancet is timely.  Authors concluded that universal background checks for firearm purchases would decrease firearm related mortality from the current 10.35 deaths/100,000 to 4.46 deaths/100,000.  Before we […]