Regionalization and emergency care: the institute of medicine reports and a federal government update.
The 2010 Academic Emergency Medicine consensus conference on regionalization in emergency care began with an update on the Institute of Medicine (IOM) reports on the Future of Emergency Care. This was followed by two presentations from federal officials, focusing on regionalization from the perspective of the White House National Security Staff and the Emergency Care Coordination Center. This article summarizes the content of these presentations. It should be noted that this summary is the perspective of the authors and does not represent the official policy of the U.S. government.
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA. carrb@upenn.edu
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