Hospital-Based Emergency Care is one of three books in the Future of Emergency Care series.
The wide range of issues covered includes: This new book considers the multiple aspects to the emergency care system in the United States by exploring its strengths, limitations, and future challenges.
Hospital-Based Emergency Care addresses the difficulty of balancing the roles of hospital-based emergency and trauma care, not simply urgent and lifesaving care, but also safety net care for uninsured patients, public health surveillance, disaster preparation, and adjunct care in the face of increasing patient volume and limited resources. Today our emergency care system faces an epidemic of crowded emergency departments, patients boarding in hallways waiting to be admitted, and daily ambulance diversions. Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences.Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education.
