In his Medical Malpractice column, John L.A. Lyddane addresses how the legal duty of the emergency room physician remains a question of law across a spectrum of treatment scenarios.

Editor’s Note: Dr. Anwar Osborne is an emergency room physician and a public voices fellow at the OpEd Project at Emory University. The hospital emergency room is the front door of the health ...

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From 1999 to 2010, 26 California hospitals that had emergency rooms shut down, and another 22 closed their emergency rooms but remained open, according to the study.

Although it's a complicated issue, there are tangible, immediate steps that health plans, brokers and benefits managers can take to proactively curb ER misuse. The issue of emergency room overuse ...

The National Quality Forum has endorsed a framework for measuring and evaluating regionalized emergency medical care systems. The concept of regionalization has been identified as a means of ...

The freestanding emergency department at Parkland is 40 yards away from its main emergency room and operates under the same license, according to Michael Malaise, the spokesperson for Parkland Health.

In a criticizing a recent peer-reviewed government report that summarizes 279 studies on emergency-room misdiagnosis (“A Study Sounds a False Alarm About America’s Emergency Rooms,” op-ed ...

A 9-year-old boy lived for weeks in a hospital emergency room, dressed in paper scrubs, because his parents couldn't handle him and the state's social services agency had nowhere to place him.

ER doctors aren’t the only emergency workers noticing the strange calm. In L.A., fewer people are making 911 calls than at this same time last year, and fewer of the ambulances dispatched are ...