Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
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Over the past decade, emergency medicine ultrasound (US) fellowships have proliferated, yet there are no published data describing employment trends among fellowship graduates. This study sought to assess factors motivating emergency physicians to pursue an US fellowship and to characterize their employment and job satisfaction after graduation. ⋯ Job satisfaction is high among US fellowship graduates and is unrelated to academic versus community affiliation. Three-fourths of recent graduates obtain their top choice of job upon completion of fellowship.
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Comparative Study
Impact of scribes on performance indicators in the emergency department.
The objective was to quantify the effect of scribes on three measures of emergency physician (EP) productivity in an adult emergency department (ED). ⋯ In this retrospective study, EP use of a scribe was associated with improved overall productivity as measured by patients treated per hour (Pt/hr) and RVU generated per hour by EPs, but not as measured by TAT to discharge.
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Multicenter Study Comparative Study
Effect of mandated nurse-patient ratios on patient wait time and care time in the emergency department.
The objective was to evaluate the effect of mandated nurse-patient ratios (NPRs) on emergency department (ED) patient flow. ⋯ In these two EDs, throughput measures of WT and EDCT were shorter when the ED nurse staffing were within state-mandated levels, after controlling for ED census and patient acuity.