Clinical operations of academic versus non-academic emergency departments: a descriptive comparison of two large emergency department operations surveys.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Academic and non-academic emergency departments (EDs) are regularly compared in clinical operations benchmarking despite suggestion that the two groups may differ in their clinical operations characteristics. and outcomes. We sought to describe and compare clinical operations characteristics of academic versus non-academic EDs.

Methods

We performed a descriptive, comparative analysis of academic and non-academic adult and general EDs with 40,000+ annual encounters, using the Academy of Academic Administrators of Emergency Medicine (AAAEM)/Association of Academic Chairs of Emergency Medicine (AACEM) and Emergency Department Benchmarking Alliance (EDBA) survey results. We defined academic EDs as primary teaching sites for emergency medicine (EM) residencies and non-

SUBMITTER: Reznek MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6868754 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature