Introduction: Patient experience with emergency department (ED) care is an expanding area
of focus, and recent literature has demonstrated strong correlation between patient …

During the last 6 months of life, 75% of older adults with preexisting serious illness, such as
advanced heart failure, lung disease, and cancer, visit the emergency department (ED). ED …

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Objectives To inform the shared decision‐making process between clinicians and older
adults and their surrogates regarding emergency intubation. Design Retrospective cohort …

Context Heart failure (HF) is associated with symptom exacerbations and risk of mortality
after an emergency department (ED) visit. Although emergency physicians (EPs) treat …

Background As global emergency care grows, practical and effective performance measures
are needed to ensure high quality care. Our objective was to systematically catalog and …

Background: Identification of older adults with serious illness (life expectancy less than one
year) who may benefit from serious illness conversations or other palliative care …

Background: Patient experience is becoming an area of interest in Emergency Medicine as
more is understood about its impact on outcomes and the expectation that it will soon be tied …

Objectives An adverse event (AE) is a physical harm experienced by a patient due to health
care, requiring intervention. Describing and categorizing AE s is important for quality and …

Context Although the importance of palliative care (PC) integration in the emergency
department (ED) has long been recognized, few formalized programs have been reported …