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HCFO Research on the Consequences of Ambulance Diversion Featured in USA Today and Multiple Media Outlets
PrintPublication Date:
July 1, 2011
Following recent publication in JAMA coinciding with AcademyHealth's Annual Research Meeting (ARM), HCFO-funded work led by Yu-Chu Shen, Ph.D., of the Naval Postgraduate School, was highlighted in several media outlets. Her research found that patients whose nearest emergency department (ED) was on divert for 12 or more hours on the day they suffered AMI had a mortality rate 2.8 percentage points higher than those patients whose nearest ED was not on divert the day of their heart attack. This finding has generated significant interest and visibility in the media:
- June 12, 2011: Medical News Today, "Diversion of Ambulances Associated with Increased Risk of Death for Heart Attack Patients"
- June 12, 2011: Huffington Post, "Ambulance Traffic Could Decide Life or Death"
- June 12, 2011: US Department of Health and Human Services, Healthfinder.gov, "Heart Attack Victims Face Greater Risk of Dying When Ambulances are Diverted"
- June 12, 2011: Modern Healthcare (subscription required), "Ambulance Diversion Tied to Higher Mortality Rates, Study Finds"
- June 12, 2011: US News & World Report, "Heart Attack Victims Face Greater Risk of Dying When Ambulances are Diverted"
- June 12, 2011: MedPage Today, "Lengthy ED Diversion Proves Costly for AMI Patients"
- June 13, 2011: USA Today, "Heart Attack Death Rates Linked to Ambulance Diversion"
- June 13, 2011: Reuters/Yahoo News, "ER Crowding Tied to Higher Death Rates"
- Jue 13, 2011: Doctors Lounge, "ARM: Ambulance Diversion May Increase Heart Attack Deaths"
- June 13, 2011: Fierce Healthcare, "ER Crowding, Ambulance Diversion Lead to More Deaths"
- June 14, 2011: Science Codex, "Diversion of Ambulances Associated with Increased Risk of Death for Heart Attack Patients"
- June 15, 2011: InCirculation.net, "Ambulance Diversion Increases Mortality Risk in AMI Patients"
- June 16, 2011: Internal Medicine News Digest Network, "Ambulance Diversion Associated with Increased Heart Attack Mortality"