TY - BOOK ID - 11336878 TI - The evolving role of emergency departments in the United States AU - Morganti, Kristy Gonzalez. AU - Morganti, Kristy Gonzalez AU - Rand Corporation. AU - Emergency Medicine Action Fund. PY - 2013 SN - 0833080806 0833080822 0833080792 9780833080790 9780833080820 9780833080806 9780833080813 0833080814 PB - Santa Monica, CA : Rand Corporation, DB - UniCat KW - Emergency medicine -- United States. KW - Emergency Service, Hospital -- economics -- United States. KW - Emergency Service, Hospital -- trends -- United States. KW - Hospitals -- Emergency services -- United States. KW - Emergency Medical Services KW - North America KW - Hospital Departments KW - Social Sciences KW - Hospital Administration KW - Health Services KW - Americas KW - Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena KW - Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services KW - Health Facilities KW - Organization and Administration KW - Geographic Locations KW - Health Care KW - Health Services Administration KW - Geographicals KW - United States KW - Economics KW - Emergency Service, Hospital KW - Public Health KW - Health & Biological Sciences KW - Hospitals & Medical Centers KW - Emergency medicine KW - Hospitals KW - Emergency services KW - Benevolent institutions KW - Infirmaries KW - Medicine, Emergency KW - Health facilities KW - Medicine KW - Critical care medicine KW - Disaster medicine KW - Medical emergencies KW - trends KW - economics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:11336878 AB - This report explores the evolving role that hospital emergency departments play in the U.S. health care system. EDs evaluate and manage complex and high-acuity patients, are the major point of entry to inpatient care, and serve as ""the safety net of the safety net"" for patients who cannot get care elsewhere. The report examines the role that EDs may come to play in either contributing to or reducing the rising costs of health care. ER -