When we're acutely ill or injured, we want to be able to quickly access care in Australia's hospital emergency departments (EDs). But more of us are seeking care in EDs. This went from 7.4 million in 2014–15 to 9.1 million ...
Dec 18, 2025
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Most (79%) of NHS trusts in England are treating patients in corridors or makeshift areas in emergency departments including "fit to sit" rooms, X‐ray waiting areas, and in one case a café, finds an investigation published ...
Dec 16, 2025
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A multinational collaboration at Eitri medical innovation center in Bergen, Norway, has used machine learning models to identify patient groups at risk of being mistreated.
Oct 27, 2025
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Overcrowding in hospital emergency departments (EDs) is bad for patients and expensive for the public purse.
Oct 20, 2025
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Jake Margo Jr. stood in the triage room at Starr County Memorial Hospital explaining why a person with persistent fever who could be treated with over-the-counter medication didn't need to be admitted to the emergency room.
Sep 22, 2025
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Survivors of sexual assault in largely rural and remote northwestern Ontario face systemic barriers when seeking forensic care, according to a new study led by McGill University researchers. The work is published in the journal ...
Sep 4, 2025
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King County had two goals when it purchased more than a dozen hotels to convert into housing for people living on the streets—end homelessness for a bunch of people and improve their health.
Jul 22, 2025
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All children experience a range of feelings that can sometimes change quickly. It can be easy for adults to dismiss a child's feelings as an overreaction or "not a big deal," but adults have the opportunity to support children ...
May 12, 2025
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The viability of hospital-based emergency care in the U.S. is at risk, threatened by issues such as patients with increasingly complex needs and falling payments for physicians, according to a new RAND report.
Apr 7, 2025
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New research finds that socioeconomically disadvantaged groups may still be underusing emergency departments for potentially serious illnesses in the wake of the COVID pandemic, despite an overall rebound in emergency department ...
Mar 12, 2025
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