RESQUE-Net
Local Analysis,
National Insights
Emergency department care is essential to the nation's health. EDs deliver the majority of all unscheduled care visits and un-planned hospital admissions and are a key portal to outpatient care and resources for every disease. They are responsible for 5-10% of all national health expenditure. In response to this growing role and volume, EDs have adapted, with new care models and operations streams. Yet research into EDs is not keeping up to date with the pace of change. The only nationally representative database with key variables to measure wait times and clinical care patterns is no longer collecting new data, leaving a blind spot in our national emergency preparedness infrastructure.
RESQUE-Net is a coalition of health system emergency department researchers aimed squarely at understanding our changing unscheduled and acute care systems through local analysis of EHR data with aligned analyses. Results are then shared to a central team which analyzes them through aggregation and when appropriate meta-analytic techniques.
This approach keeps patient data within each health system, but allows rapid innovation and national-scale research.
