Frequent ED Users audiocast
October 4, 2012
Quarterly Bedside Teaching Award
August 27, 2012
Academy of Medical Educators Excellence in Teaching Award
August 22, 2012
Academy of Medical Educators - Excellence in Teaching Award
August 20, 2012
Academy of Medical Educators - New Members
August 15, 2012
The UCSF Department of Emergency Medicine is currently enrolling patients for the STONE trial
May 25, 2012
The STONE trial is a fifteen site randomized controlled trial comparing CT scan vs. Radiology performed ultrasound vs. point of care ultrasound for emergency department patients with suspected kidney stone.
Quarterly Bedside Teaching Award
April 25, 2012
Renee Y. Hsia
April 23, 2012
Dr. Hsia's research on appendicitis admissions across California was published on April 23, 2012, in the Archives of Internal Medicine: "Health Care as a "Market Good"? Appendicitis as a Case Study." Her team found that after studying over 19,000 patients who were admitted for uncomplicated appendicitis in patients aged 18-59 with a hospital stay of 3 days or less and had a routine discharge home, hospital charges ranged from $1529 to $182,955.
Are “avoidable” ED visits really avoidable?
April 1, 2012