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During medical emergencies, hospital staff and emergency medical services (EMS) providers, can face barriers in delivering the fastest and best possible care. Overcrowded emergency rooms cannot care for patients as quickly as necessary, and some may divert ambulances and turn away new patients outright. In many states, ambulance staff lacks the means to determine which hospitals can provide the best care to a patient. Given this absence of kno...

The Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, independent advisors to the United States government, has commissioned this proposal for a national health program that would meet important criteria in terms of clinical services, practice guidelines, diagnostic protocols and treatment and prevention services. This volume is the work of dozens of independent researchers, editors and reviewers, and covers such topics as controlling the costs...

In 2006, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a series of three books on the Future of Emergency Care in the United States Health System. These reports contained recommendations that called on the federal government and private stakeholders to initiate changes aimed at improving the emergency care system. Three years later, in May 2009, the IOM convened a workshop to examine the progress to date in achieving these objectives, and to help a...