This study explores the reason rural Medicaid beneficiaries bypass their local rural hospitals even though their local rural hospitals provide the healthcare services that patients are seeking. Conditional logit regression was used to identify the factors that influence rural patients to bypass...

The problems currently evident in emergency management give ample reason to reflect upon the direction of this profession in the USA. This paper evaluates the founding principles upon which this profession was based in the 1980s. It then highlights the strengths and weaknesses of the...