Michigan Emergency Dept Improvement Collaborative was well represented today at the 9th Annual William G. Barsan Emergency Medicine Research Forum! #qualityimprovement #emergencymedicine #research

When trying to find adverse events in healthcare, we know trigger tools are better than spotty manual review. Leveraging EMRs we’ve validated an electronic emergency department trigger tool (EDTT) across multiple sites! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ac…

The Michigan Emergency Department Improvement Collaborative is hiring! Michigan Emergency Dept Improvement Collaborative

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Excited to host Scott Weiner from Mass General Brigham for the Michigan Research #Opioid Research Institute to discuss the past, present and future of opioids and opioid #overdose Sept 22. Register below!

A study from @kathylimd, Keith Kocher provides evidence for #emergency care #telemedicine : new study finds pilot program for Veterans cut ED visits in half, ↓ costs and admissions.
Read @ buff.ly/3KDKZAq.
#AEM #EM #Veterans Veterans Affairs

Tele-emergency care (phone OR video visit with an ER doc) decreased ED visits by nearly half (35%->18%) among Veterans calling nurse triage and recommended to be seen within 24 hours.

Excited to present work of OPEN and Michigan Emergency Dept Improvement Collaborative standing up a statewide #naloxone distribution in 31 #Michigan emergency departments to ensure patient-centered post-overdose treatment. Thanks to Keith Kocher & Gina Dahlem, PhD, RN for collaboration

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Standard Nurse Phone Triage vs Tele-Emergency Care Pilot on Veteran Use of In-person Acute Care: An Instrumental Variable Analysis

w/ Dr Edwin Wong & Keith Kocher UMich EM Residency VA Ann Arbor U-M IHPI VA CCMR VA Puget Sound
University of Washington School of Public Health
in AEM Journal

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36757685/

This 3 minute video from author accompanying editorial Annals of Int Med is priceless!
As a pathologist, he apologizes to clinicians for contributing to the “daily digital fatigue” from the 20 lines of mostly useless info in a standard CBC with differential:
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Oh boy, my read on this thread: we’re effectively returning to the backward state we used to be in.
X-waiver gone in name only. Just replacing 1 barrier with another.
Whose interests are we protecting here?—definitely not patients!

Our latest work, out of the #VenkateshLab .

“Trends In Treat-and-Release Emergency Care Visits With High-Intensity Billing In The US, 2006-19”

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healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.137…

Arjun Michelle P. Lin, MD, MPH Keith Kocher Cameron Gettel MD MHS Ryan Koski-Vacirca

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Proud to share our work applying quality measures to reduce EM health disparities by stratifying existing measures & developing new measures in key gap areas
Hazar Khidir MD Arjun Amber Sabbatini, MD, MPH Keith Kocher Rama Salhi Aisha Terry AnnalsofEM ACEP Members
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