Analyzing current status for optimizing emergency medical system

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24592747
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Emergency medicine
• Research Institution: Keio University
• Principal Investigator: SUZUKI MASARU 慶應義塾大学, 医学部, 講師 (70265916)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 救急医療体制 / 救急医療需要 / 救急医療資源 / 救急車不応需 / 緊急入院 / 救急医療の質 / 救急医

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Current emergency medical system in Japan has been threatened by imbalanced demand-supply relationship to emergency medicine. The imbalance is characterized as diversity of actions of common people seeking medical management. There is a marked tendency regarding to the diversity in urban area. Inappropriate demand for emergency medicine makes quality of emergency medical services poor. Further, medical financial reasons reduce total capacity of the emergency hospital admission, because fulfilled hospital bed management is indispensable to hospital administration. In addition, emergency physicians’ management ability also relates with emergency medicine supply resources.

Free Research Field

救急医学