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Relationship between Hospitals and Emergency Medical

Introduction

Although there is hardly a thin fine line between the two, hospitals and emergency medical are two different terms used for two slightly different institutions. Hospitals are institutions that host patients for medical operations, procedures, tests and processes. On the other hand, the role and purpose of an emergency medical institution is to provide instant medication and health care to a person who is injured or struck by some form of medical emergency. In most cases, the two overlap in some way or the other, because almost every hospital is built with its own emergency ward. However, it is not necessary that every hospital has to have an emergency ward. For example, an eye clinic or a hospital built for cardiology may not have its own emergency ward and may take patients referred from other Emergency institutes. In this paper, we study the main differences that can be observed between a hospital and an emergency service. ER is usually the term used for emergency wards and institutes. There are several significant differences between the two, most of them come in the form of functionality and working (Hale, 301-20).

Medical Emergencies

Medical emergencies in hospitals and sanatoriums were created precisely to meet the people who, for some cause or reason, attend health facilities to be assisted by a medical professional. Emergencies usually have to open their doors around the clock and assist people who come in with a disease, illness or sudden injury that requires immediate treatment. This happens most of the time, when someone's health problem can cause death or loss, like the loss of a limb, a finger, an arm, a leg etc. If the person does not receive help, it could lead to serious problems or even death.

Medical Advice

Medical Advice and AMA (Against medical advice) are one of the most prominent differences between ERs and hospitals. When a person is admitted in the ward as an 'in-patient', there are higher chances of LAMA (Leave Against medical advice) and when a person is rushed into the ER, there is little chance of leaving against the advice of the doctor and the attendants. The emergency department is an ideal subgroup to begin to analyze the transfer of information that occurs when patients leave AMA. As has been suggested by ample literature published online, patients that leave AMA from the emergency department often are at an increased risk of morbidity and mortality as well as recidivism. However, there are certain studies that suggest that there is in fact, an elevated AMA discharge rate from the emergency department compared to the general medicine wards allowing for a significant number of physician-patient conversations to be observed. From a practical perspective, the interactions in the emergency department occur over a very short, finite period of time. Most importantly, due to regulations stipulated by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) healthcare providers in the emergency department are required to document encounters when a patient ...