Sabbatini, Amber K

This study examines the patient- and hospital-level variation in time to initiation of inpatient management among patients admitted to general medical services.

Expert consensus recommendations from 21 academic centers were established for appropriate radiography utilization at 12 potentially low-yield anatomic sites through a multidisciplinary process endorsed by six major American medical societies.

AbstractPatient‐centered emergency diagnostic imaging relies on efficient communication and multispecialty care coordination to ensure optimal imaging utilization. The construct of the emergency diagnostic imaging care coordination cycle with three main phases (pretest, test, and posttest) provides a useful framework to evaluate care coordination in patient‐centered emergency diagnostic imaging. This article summarizes findings reached during the patient‐centered outcomes session of the 2015 Academic Emergency Medicine consensus conference “Diagnostic Imaging in the Emergency Department: A Research Agenda to Optimize Utilization.” The primary objective was to develop a research agenda focused on 1) defining component parts of the emergency diagnostic imaging care coordination process, 2) identifying gaps in communication that affect emergency diagnostic imaging, and 3) defining optimal methods of communication and multidisciplinary care coordination that ensure patient‐centered emergency diagnostic imaging. Prioritized research questions provided the framework to define a research agenda for multidisciplinary care coordination in emergency diagnostic imaging.