Future of Emergency Care Dissemination Workshop Summaries (2007) / Chapter Skim
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Health System released a series of reports on the state of emergency care. The reports, Emergency Medical Services at the Crossroads; Hospital-Based Emergency Care: At the Breaking Point; and Emergency Care for Children: Growing Pains, identified a number of disturbing problems including overcrowded emergency departments, a lack of coordination among emergency providers, variability in the quality of care provided to patients, workforce shortages, lack of disaster preparedness, a limited research base, and shortcomings in the systems' ability to care for pediatric patients.
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The IOM received funding from 14 organizations to conduct a series of dissemination workshops associated with the release of the 2006 reports on the future of emergency care. Sponsors included the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Emergency Physicians, the American College of Surgeons, the Association of Academic Chairs of Emergency Medicine, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors, the Emergency Medicine Residents' Association, the Emergency Nurses Association, the Health Resources and Services Administration, the National Association of EMS Physicians, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.
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In addition, time was reserved at each workshop for attendees to pose questions to IOM committee members and the invited panelists. This report summarizes the proceedings of the workshops.
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