Roughly one-half of all hospital admissions come from emergency department (ED) visits, according to a recent study by the RAND Corporation.
ED-related admissions increased 17 percent from 2003 to 2009, the study found, but the growth in all hospital admissions rose only 4 percent.
A recent article in Modern Healthcare takes a look at how two initiatives revamped the cultures of their EDs to improve satisfaction for physicians and other staff members and kept patient wait times to a minimum.
