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: Legal BlogStudy Finds that Waiting Time in the ER More than Doubled; Possible Violations of Federal Law (EMTALA)
An analysis by researchers at the Cambridge Health Alliance and Harvard Medical School found that the median waiting time to see a physician in hospital emergency departments jumped from 22 minutes in 1997 to 30 minutes in 2004, a 36% increase. Ominously, according to results published in the journal Health Affairs, wait times more than doubled for the sickest heart attack patients. In 1997, half of them got to see a doctor within eight minutes; in 2004 it took 20 minutes. For a quarter of the heart attack patients, the wait reached 50 minutes or more - a particularly disturbing lag because chances of surviving a heart attack are known to worsen when treatment is delayed.
Such improper care can be grounds for a claim under the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA).
Full post as published by Legal Blog on January 27, 2008 (boomark / email).
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