Gabrielle Bunney, MD, MBA Candidate leads a study that explores the value of additional screening criteria to identify patients with ACS for an early ECG to diagnose STEMI upon first contact.

Divya Kurian, MD leads a study that examines the impact of an emergency physician staffed walk-in clinic as an alternative care location for low acuity patients as emergency department volume exceeds capacity.

Nicholas Ashenberg, MD, leads a case study on the impact of an Emergency Department virtual visit model of care to address the problem of longer ED length of stays for low-acuity patients.

Shashank Ravi, MD leads a study on the impact of the Emergency Department’s Drive-through care model to address capacity limitations and infection control in the early stages of Stanford’s COVID-19 pandemic response.

Cherrelle Smith, MD leads a clinical operations study examining racial, ethnic and language disparities in time to pain medication delivery for pediatric emergency department patients.

New Publication! Impact of a Follow-Up Telephone Call Program on 30-day Readmissions (FUTR-30): A Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Real-World Effectiveness Trial was published in Medical Care July 2020.

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ECG to Activation: Not an Appropriate Physician Metric, but a Worthy Process Metric was published in The Journal of Emergency Medicine July 2021.

Operationalizing a Pandemic-Ready, Telemedicine-Enabled Drive-Through and Walk-In Coronavirus Disease Garage Care System as an Alternative Care Area: A Novel Approach in Pandemic Management was published in The Journal of Emergency Nursing June 2021.

The HSR-DCC Lab Team welcomes Kate Miller, PhD, MPH from the Stanford Quantitative Sciences Unit. Kate will be taking over for Vandana Sundaram, MPH, as the Lead Biostatistician. Pictured: (top) Kate Miller, Anna Graber-Naidich; (bottom): Marium Rizvi, Melissa Pasao, Vandana Sundaram, Maya Yiadom, Loretta Matheson