Inoculate Your Emergency Department Staff Against ICD-10 Stress Syndrome
Written by Herman M. Fountain, MD, MBA, CPE
Monday, 10 November 2014 05:00
According to the most recent statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there were 129.8 million visits to emergency departments across America last year. Almost 38 million were injury-related and 13.3 percent of those seeking treatment were admitted. To put that into perspective, during that same reporting period, the total population of the U.S. was roughly 308 million, meaning that the equivalent of 41 percent of the population visited the emergency room.
The drama inside emergency rooms as depicted on popular television shows doesn’t correlate to what really happens. While there are many life-threatening cases involving heart attacks and traumatic injuries or poisonings, there are also a lot of colds, flus, and insect bites. It’s no surprise that emergency departments have become a default source of care for populations without access to primary care, and that high rates of repeat patient visits to emergency departments and readmissions are straining the resources in our healthcare delivery system. Many of these patients are over 65 and suffer from multiple chronic conditions.
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