Holiday carbon monoxide risks families should know
Holiday gatherings often mean more cooking, heating and travel, but they can also raise the risk of a dangerous threat many people never see or smell: Carbon monoxide.
Dec 22, 2025
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Health Services Administration: News and Research on Hospital Departments
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Young children more likely to visit ER after virtual care than in-person visits, study shows
A new Ontario-based study finds that children aged three months to two years are more likely to visit the emergency department (ED) within three days after a virtual primary care appointment compared to an in-person visit. ...
Dec 19, 2025
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Can Urgent Care clinics actually take pressure off hospitals? Yes, but they're not the only way
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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Corridor care in NHS: 79% of trusts treating patients in non-designated areas
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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Status of rural health care, hospitals probed in study
New research from The University of Texas at Arlington examines the widening health care gap between rural and urban communities and how the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Rural Emergency Hospital (REH) program, ...
Nov 20, 2025
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Using AI to identify at-risk patient groups in emergency room triage systems
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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Research shows urgent care clinics ease pressure on hospital emergency departments, but need tweaks to work better
Overcrowding in hospital emergency departments (EDs) is bad for patients and expensive for the public purse.
Oct 20, 2025
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Project reduces hospitalizations among home health-care patients
An estimated 90% of patients receiving home health care have at least one discrepancy between their medication lists and what they're actually taking—making it more likely they will end up in the hospital.
Oct 15, 2025
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Analysis reveals emergency medical call times in rural areas take at least 20 minutes longer than national average
Response times for emergency medical services (EMS) in rural areas can take almost 20 minutes longer compared to the national average, and the severity of the medical needs in these communities are likely to be much worse, ...
Oct 3, 2025
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Safety-net hospitals carry the highest cost of gun injuries, analysis finds
The initial hospital treatment of firearm injuries cost the U.S. health care system an estimated $7.7 billion between 2016 and 2021, with the largest share falling on urban trauma center hospitals that serve the highest proportion ...
Sep 26, 2025
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