Boarding in EDs after admission is a public health crisis and leads to more medical error & higher mortality. Solutions exist. Here's why many hospitals aren't fixing it. forbes.com/sites/jessepin… ACEP Members Emergency Physicians emresidents AAEM

📢 Exciting #GeriatricEM study! 🚑 👵 Half of ED patients aged 65+ leave with new prescriptions, but some increase risk. 🚨 Our team of experts developed GEMS-Rx, an evidence-driven list of high-risk meds to avoid in older adults: authors.elsevier.com/a/1il1Fib7EM7pA AnnalsofEM

Institutional efforts to address legacies of #slavery and their implications for health care systems. We discuss in new JAMA Health Forum article led by the brilliant Dr. Sara Bleich Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Harvard Health Policy and Management and Harvard Law Professor Martha Minow jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-…

Loss of #Medicaid coverage among dual-eligibles has long been a major concern — especially since loss is most often due to administrative hassles. In new JAMA Network Open study, we find some important insights into Medicaid loss among #duals over time. jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

Congratulations ⁦Kori S Zachrison, MD, MSc⁩ on your award recognizing your amazing and impactful research!!

Congratulations Cameron Gettel MD MHS!! We knew you were going to be a research rockstar! Also, so excited to see TWO SAEM AGEM scholars recognized! Katie Hunold Buck

One of my favorite parts of #SAEM24 is our ever-growing women EM health services researchers annual dinner! ❤️ so lucky to call these ladies colleagues and friends SAEM AWAEM

New JAMA Internal Medicine paper with Brian McGarry Ashvin Gandhi Jiamin Yin and Afroze Chughtai Harvard Health Policy and Management! We explored if COVID+ hospital admissions to nursing homes early in the pandemic led to COVID outbreaks. Much discussed but never studied! jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai… brief thread

Congratulations, Jose, on this very well-deserved promotion!!

🧵 In 2015, Cameron Gettel MD MHS and I set out to improve the quality of information transfer from nursing homes to emergency departments. We found many forms lacked critical details, like patients' baseline functional and cognitive status, and had confusing or missing code status. 1/

Since finishing residency I've been thinking a lot about diagnostic quality in emergency medicine. Our work is all about needles in haystacks. On the one hand, our 'threshold to test' is... extremely low. On the other hand, we... miss awful diagnoses all the time?