Life or death decisions and no feedback: New study highlights the value of patient tracking, especially in the ER

Back in the ’80s, when Shamai Grossman was mulling which medical specialty to choose, the major drawback of emergency medicine was that those doctors rarely got to learn what happened to their patients.

Decades later, the same criticism holds true.

“We only take care of patients for a few hours, yet the effects of what we do could have an impact way down the road,” said Grossman, an emergency medicine physician and vice chair for health care quality in Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center’s department of emergency medicine.

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