Comments on: Nonemergent Complaints and Refusal of Care http://www.epmonthly.com/whitecoat/2012/02/nonemergent-complaints-and-refusal-of-care/ A blog from inside the emergency department Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:23:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: defendUSA http://www.epmonthly.com/whitecoat/2012/02/nonemergent-complaints-and-refusal-of-care/#comment-83605 defendUSA Wed, 07 Mar 2012 11:49:33 +0000 http://www.epmonthly.com/whitecoat/?p=7817#comment-83605 It’s true that the government gets the outcome they pay for. Unfortunately, people in general don’t understand this, but they believe in the magic of “O’care” as if it guarantees them no sickness, no mishaps at all in life. And therein lies the bigger rub.

]]> By: Myles http://www.epmonthly.com/whitecoat/2012/02/nonemergent-complaints-and-refusal-of-care/#comment-83209 Myles Fri, 02 Mar 2012 06:25:27 +0000 http://www.epmonthly.com/whitecoat/?p=7817#comment-83209 If you could somehow safely identify at triage and defer care on the 20% of ED patients who would otherwise receive the least amount of care in the ED, you would save less than 4% of the cost of care for all the patients treated in the ED, and less than 0.012% of the cost of all care provided in the US. All this bruhaha about unnecessary ED visits is a distraction from the real opportunities for reducing unnecessary costs in our health care system:

http://www.ficklefinger.net/blog/2011/05/06/much-ado-about-very-little-%E2%80%93-the-deferral-of-ed-care-boondoggle/

http://www.ficklefinger.net/blog/2011/11/04/potential-savings-from-the-elimination-of-unnecessary-er-visits/

Fickle Finger

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