Emergency Care Management:

Emergency services

Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act

ER Authorization System

Benefit coverage – example language

Redirection

Appeals

Response time by providers for authorization

ER treatment review criteria matrix

Ambulance and other medical transportation, review policy/procedure

Reducing Emergency Room Visits – improving care and access in physician offices

Physicians Utilization Guide for ER Care

ER utilization benchmarks

Emergency Care Overview - Clinical

Emergency Care Committee

Emergency Medical Care Protocols and Guidelines - links

Mandatory Reports – Domestic Violence

ACLS Certification

Reimbursement for courses

Emergency treatment protocols and guidelines

Emergency ‘On-site’ Triage Policy for Ambulance, ED, and Telephone Calls

Case Management in the ED for High Utilizers

Reducing ER Care Visits

Reducing ER Wait Times

Office Emergency/Code Blue Policy and Procedure

Code Blue

Evaluation of Code Blue Response

Emergency Equipment

Adult Crash Cart: Content List

Crash Cart/Defibrillator Check Lists

Algorithms: Specialty Referral by UCC Physician Algorithm; Priority Care Appointment following UCC Visit; UCC Patient Disposition Algorithm; Pre-Admission Function/ER Algorithm

Reducing medication errors in the ER

‘Stat Nurse’ Call

Provider Tips

ER Staffing and Related Issues

Chest Pain/Chest Pain Units

Diagnostic X-ray, Post-trauma: Cervical spine, Knee, Ankle and Foot

Patient Satisfaction with ER Services

ED Case Management Intervention Services

ACEP Fact Sheet Patient Waiting Times

Advanced Directives

Addendum – Court definition of emergency for Medicaid services

Payments for Emergency Services to Non-contracted Providers – California Law

References for emergency medical services

Emergency Medicine web sites

Apollo’s publication list

‘Famous Last Words’