CAL/ACEP President
Peter Sokolove, MD, FACEP, President
Reports/Studies
Here, you can browse through reports and studies from a variety of sources including: medical journals, academic publications and government agencies & departments. Topics range from: emergency care in California, access-to-care, and emergency medicine nationwide, among many others. If you feel that there is a publication of interest missing from this collection, please contact us at advocacy@calacep.org.
UNINSURED
Caring for Medically Indigent Adults: A History (California HealthCare Foundation, June 2005)
Snapshot: California's Uninsured (California HealthCare Foundation, 2007)
HEALTH CARE COSTS
EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT
Utilization & Data
National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2005 Emergency Department Survey (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, June 2007)
National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2006 Emergency Department Survey (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, August 2008)
Characteristics of Frequent Users of Emergency Departments (Annals of Emergency Medicine, July 2006)
ED Patient Throughput in an Impacted Urban Setting (Journal of Ambulatory Care, October 2007)
Trends in Use and Capacity of California's Emergency Departments, 1990-1999 (Annals of Emergency Medicine, April 2002)
Does Lack of a Usual Source of Care or Health Insurance Increase the Likelihood of an Emergency Department Visits? Results of a National Population-Based Study (Annals of Emergency Medicine, January 2005)
EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT
Physician Reimbursement
A More Rational Approach to Setting Medi-Cal Physician Rates (Legislative Analysts' Office, February 2001)
Balance Billing Bans - State Statutes
Big Health Insurer Agrees to Update its Fee Data (New York Times, January 13, 2009)
The Worst Places to be Sick and Poor (Forbes, December 22, 2008)
Report of the Health Network Adequacy Advisory Committee (Texas Department of Insurance, January 2009)
Medi-Cal Physician and Dentist Fees: A Comparison to Other Medicaid Programs and Medicare (California Healthcare Foundation, April 2009)
EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT
Overcrowding
The access-block effect: relationship between delay to reaching an inpatient bed and inpatient length of stay (Medical Journal of Australia, November 2002)
Analysis of Ambulance Transports and Diversions Among US Emergency Departments (Annals of Emergency Medicine, April 2006)
The Association between Emergency Department Crowding and Hospital Performance on Antibiotic Timing for Pnuemonia and Percutaneous Intervention for Myocardial Infarction (Academic Emergency Medicine, August 2006)
The Association between Hospital Overcrowding and Mortality among Patients Admitted via Western Australian Emergency Departments (The Commonwealth Fund, February 2007)
California's Emergency Departments: System Capacity and Demand (California HealthCare Foundation, April 2002)
Clinical review: Emergency department overcrowding and the potential impact on the critically ill (Critical Care, June 2005)
Crisis in the ER (Good Housekeeping, April 2008)
The Effects of Ambulance Diversion: A Comprehensive Review (Academic Emergency Medicine, November 2006)
Emergency Department Crowding and Thrombolysis Delays in Acute Myocardial Infarction (Annals of Emergency Medicine, December 2004)
ERs fail as the nation's safety net: Survey of doctors finds life-threatening overcrowding and long waits in emergency rooms are common (Los Angeles Times, February 2008)
Hospital Workload and Adverse Events (Medical Care, May 2007)
Increase in patient mortality at 10 days associated with emergency department overcrowding (Medical Journal of Australia, March 2006)
The relationship between distance to hospital and patient mortality in emergencies: an observational study (Emergency Medicine Journal, 2007)
Stretched Thin: Growing Gaps in California's Emergency Room Backup System (Senate Office of Research, May 2003)
Ten Solutions for Emergency Department Crowding (Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, January 2008)
The Quality Gap: Searching for the Consequences of Emergency Department Crowding (Annals of Emergency Medicine, December 2004)
Tuscon emergency rooms in life-and-death crunch: Critical-care workers admit they're overwhelmed, and some desperate patients spend hours waiting (Arizona Daily Star, March 2006)
Waits to See An Emergency Department Physician: U.S. Trends and Predictors, 1997-2004 (Health Trends, January 2008)
EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT
Boarding
Emergency Department Crowding: High-Impact Solutions (American College of Emergency Physicians, April 2008)
Emergency department length of stay independently predicts excess inpatient length of stay (Medical Journal of Australia, November 2003)
Surprise finding on ER crowding: Study says the uninsured aren't to blame (San Jose Mercury News, April 2008)
EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES
California Emergency Medical Services Authority State Plan - 2003 (California Emergency Medical Services Authority, 2003)
CALL PANELS AND SPECIALISTS
Emergency illustrates flaws in on-call system: It took time to find specialist to reattach man's hand (San Diego Union-Tribune, January 2008)
Exodus of specialists from ERs raises concerns: Many are unwilling to work nights and weekends or to care for uninsured patients (Los Angeles Times, April 2008)
EMERGENCY MEDICINE
General
The National Report Card on the State of Emergency Medicine: Evaluating the Emergency Care Environment State by State (American College of Emergency Physicians, 2008)
