The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act ("EMTALA") provides that if a patient comes to a hospital or hospital-owned urgent care center, the hospital and relevant on-call physicians must ...

That's the key question that a pair of University of Colorado Department of Emergency Medicine physicians and a medical student set out to answer through a survey of their peers nationwide. They ...

Air ambulances may be tipping the balance between life and death—saving more trauma patients than statistics say should survive.

In most U.S. emergency departments, patients are admitted in an order based on both the urgency of their condition and when they arrived. But in a new study, Yale researchers found that nearly 29% of ...