Doctors Warn College Students: Beware the “Borg”
Source: Boston.com, February 23rd, 2023.
Norovirus Cases Rising in Massachusetts
Source: WBZ (Boston’s CBS affiliate) News, February 15, 2023.
Flu Cases Soaring as U.S. Hospitals Struggle with Tripledemic
Source: NBC Nightly News, December 8, 2022.
SI GENESIS: Wildcats Respond to COVID-19 with Heroism and Ingenuity
Source: St. Ignatius Genesis, Summer 2020.
Dental Cupid’ Makes Pandemic-Era Matches Between Emergency Patients And Dentists
Source: WBUR (Boston’s NPR affiliate), April 29, 2020.
Managing Atrial Fibrillation in the Emergency Department
Source: EP Lab Digest, January 21, 2020.
Two Prominent Flu Strains are Hitting Kids and the Young Particularly Hard this Season
Source: NBC News, January 10, 2020.
Atrial Fibrillation Management and Reversal
Source: Apple Podcasts, December 1, 2019.
ACEP’s New Point-of-Care Phone App Gives You Bedside Tools
Emergency physicians are innate problem solvers. If they see a gap, they work to close it. When they identify a…
BLOOD TEST TO DETECT HEART ATTACKS
Heart attacks can be diagnosed more quickly, thanks to the high-sensitivity blood test of troponin. Troponin, a protein that is…
ATRIAL FIBRILLATION OUTPATIENT PATHWAYS
ACEP Frontline’s host Dr. Ryan Stanton is talks to Dr. Chris Baugh about his work on an atrial fibrillation panel…
HOW WE GOT HERE WITH THE 2 MIDNIGHT RULE
In this episode we retrace some of the pivotal moments from the inception of the 2 Midnight rule. Dr. Wheatley…
OBSERVATION MEDICINE ACEP‘16
Host Ryan Stanton, MD, FACEP talks to Christopher Baugh, MD, FACEP and Anwar Osborne, MD, FACEP on the growth and…
OBSERVATION MEDICINE IN THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT
Dr. Baugh currently serves as the Chair of the American College of Emergency Physicians Observation Medicine Section and Director of…
DEDICATED HOSPITAL OBSERVATION UNITS COULD SAVE $3.1 BILLION
POBScast from Boston with Dr. Chris Baugh from Harvard Medical School. Source: POBScast, November 28, 2015.
TRANSLATING ‘TWO MIDNIGHTS’
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) probably had good intentions in redefining the difference between inpatient and observation,…
AS CMS MAKES ANOTHER POLICY CHANGE, POLICY MAKERS DISTINGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT FORMS OF CARE
As observation care continues to draw fire from critics who charge that the designation ends up costing hospitals money while…
DEDICATED HOSPITAL OBSERVATION UNITS TO THE RESCUE
Along with growing demand, rising costs and lower payments have threatened the financial viability of many hospitals, resulting in ED…
HOSPITAL OBSERVATION UNITS FILL GAPS, BUT PATIENTS MAY FOOT THE BILL
If you find yourself in the emergency department and the doctor says he wants to keep you at the hospital…
OBSERVATION UNITS CAN IMPROVE CARE BUT MAY BE COSTLY FOR PATIENTS
There’s a growing recognition by clinicians that some patients who arrive at the emergency department can benefit if they’re kept…
OBSERVATION UNITS MAY EASE BURDENS OF ER CARE, BUT BENEFITS TO PATIENTS COME AT A PRICE
A growing number of hospitals are opting to move some people from the emergency room into observation units where they…
USING OBSERVATION UNITS, HOSPITALS COULD SAVE $3.1B
Instead of admitting certain patients to the hospital, using dedicated observation units in hospitals can often be more efficient, result…
OBSERVATION UNITS SAVE MONEY
A mathematical model suggests that having an observation unit in every appropriate U.S. hospital could save $3.1 billion per year.…
WBUR ON-AIR INTERVIEW: MAKING GREATER USE OF DEDICATED HOSPITAL OBSERVATION UNITS FOR MANY SHORT-STAY PATIENTS COULD SAVE $3.1 BILLION A YEAR
Using observation units in hospitals to provide care to certain patients can be more efficient than admitting them to the…
HOSPITAL OBSERVATION UNITS COULD SAVE THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM $3.1 BILLION
Researchers estimate that maximizing the potential of an observation unit in a hospital could result in $4.6 million in savings…
DEDICATED HOSPITAL OBSERVATION UNITS COULD SAVE $3.1 BILLION
Maximizing the potential use of dedicated hospital observation units could save billions of dollars in healthcare resources annually. Observation units…
HOSPITAL OBSERVATION UNITS COULD SAVE BILLIONS IN HEALTH COSTS, STUDY SAYS
Wider use of hospital observation units could save the U.S. health care system billions of dollars a year, a new…
WIDER USE OF HOSPITAL OBSERVATION UNITS COULD SAVE THE U.S. HEALTHCARE SYSTEM BILLIONS OF DOLLARS A YEAR, A NEW STUDY INDICATES
An observation unit is a space near or within the emergency department that provides an alternative to inpatient admission. The…
HOSPITAL OBSERVATION UNITS COULD SAVE $3.1 BILLION IN US HEALTH COSTS
We believe that this is the first attempt to quantify the financial impact of an observation unit, said HMS instructor…