Table of Contents

1 Front Matter; 2 Summary; 3 1 Introduction; 4 2 The Evolving Role of Hospital-Based Emergency Care; 5 3 Building a 21st-Century Emergency Care System; 6 4 Improving the Efficiency of Hospital-Based Emergency Care; 7 5 Technology and Communications; 8 6 The Emergency Care Workforce; 9 7 Disaster Preparedness; 10 8 Enhancing the Emergency Care Research Base; 11 Appendix A Committee and Subcommittee Membership; 12 Appendix B Biographical Information for Main Committee and Hospital- Based Emergency Care Subcommittee; 13 Appendix C List of Presentations to the Committee; 14 Appendix D List of Commissioned Papers; 15 Appendix E Statistics on Emergency and Trauma Care Utilization; 16 Appendix F Historical Development of Hospital-Based Emergency and Trauma Care; 17 Appendix G Recommendations and Responsible Entities from the Future of Emergency Care Series; 18 Index

About the Author

Committee on the Future of Emergency Care in the United States Health System