We aimed to assess and compare the analgesic efficacy and adverse effects of intravenous subdissociative-dose ketamine to nebulized ketamine in emergency department (ED) patients with acute painful conditions.

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We assessed the concordance of patient-reported race and ethnicity for emergency department (ED) patients compared with what was recorded in the electronic health record.

The fee-for-service funding model for US emergency department (ED) clinician groups is increasingly fragile. Traditional fee-for-service payment systems offer no financial incentives to improve quality, address population health, or make value-based clinical decisions. Fee-for-service also does not support maintaining ED capacity to handle peak demand...

In June 2023, New York City (NYC) experienced record levels of unhealthy fine particulate matter (PM2.5) pollution because of smoke from the 2023 Canadian wildfires. On June 7, NYC was briefly ranked the most polluted major city in the world; the daily mean PM2.5 concentration (203.9 μg/m3) being 5 times that of the daily US ambient air quality standard...