By Andrew M. Seaman (Reuters Health) - U.S. emergency departments are better prepared these days to care for young patients, a new study shows. The average readiness score for emergency departments responding to a survey in 2013 was about 69 percent, compared to an average score of about 55 percent in 2003, researchers say. “I’d say it’s a lot better,” said Dr. Marianne Gausche-Hill, the study’s lead author and chief of pediatric emergency medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California. Several organizations have worked together to improve emergency care for children over the past several years, she told Reuters Health in a phone interview. via Health News Headlines - Yahoo News Read More Here..
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