Department of Emergency Medicine and Health Policy, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.
Acad Emerg Med. 2011 Jun;18(6):655-61. doi: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2011.01085.x.
In October 2009, the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) convened a conference held in Boston, Massachusetts, to outline critical issues in emergency care quality and efficiency and to develop a series of research agendas and projects aimed at addressing important questions about how to improve acute, episodic care. The aim of the conference was to describe how hospital-based emergency department (ED) systems could provide solutions for broader delivery problems in the U.S. health care system. The conference featured keynote speakers Drs. Carolyn Clancy (Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) and Elliott Fisher (Director, Center for Health Policy Research at Dartmouth Medical School). Panels focused on: 1) systems and workflow redesign to improve health care and 2) improving coordination of care for high-cost patients. Additional sessions were conducted to develop five research agendas on the following topics: 1) health information technology; 2) demand for acute care services; 3) frequent, high-cost users of emergency care; 4) critical pathways for post-emergency care diagnosis and treatment; and 5) end-of-life and palliative care in the ED.
2009 年 10 月，美国急诊医师学会（ACEP）在马萨诸塞州波士顿召开了一次会议，概述了急诊医疗质量和效率方面的关键问题，并制定了一系列研究议程和项目，旨在解决有关如何改善急性、突发性医疗护理的重要问题。会议旨在描述医院急诊部（ED）系统如何为美国医疗保健系统更广泛的提供服务问题提供解决方案。会议的主题演讲人包括 Carolyn Clancy 博士（医疗保健研究和质量局局长）和 Elliott Fisher 博士（达特茅斯医学院卫生政策研究中心主任）。小组重点讨论了：1）系统和工作流程的重新设计，以改善医疗保健；2）改善高成本患者的护理协调。还进行了其他会议，以制定五个研究议程，主题如下：1）健康信息技术；2）急性护理服务需求；3）急诊护理的高频、高成本使用者；4）急诊后诊断和治疗的关键路径；5）ED 中的临终关怀和姑息治疗。
