
Why the Acute Care Model Needs a Checkup
Ensuring that health care systems are ready and properly staffed to provide acute care requires teamwork and diligence.
December 05, 2016 7:00 AM
Mahshid Abir, M.D., is an emergency physician and the director of the Acute Care Research Unit at the University of Michigan, and an adjunct natural scientist at the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation. Brendan G. Carr, M.D., is an emergency physician, the vice chair of health policy and the associate dean of health care delivery innovation at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia.
Ensuring that health care systems are ready and properly staffed to provide acute care requires teamwork and diligence.