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- Emergency Physician Coverage of In-hospital CodesJournal of Emergency MedicineVol. 45Issue 1
- PreviewWe read the recent article “Quantifying Off-hour Emergency Physician Coverage of In-hospital Codes: A Survey of Community Emergency Departments” by Sherwin et al., and would like to comment on this important issue (1). Although Emergency Physicians (EPs) are able to adapt to exigent circumstances and typically want to help any patient in need of emergency care, it should be a rare situation and not the expected rule for EPs to leave their Emergency Department (ED) duties to provide inpatient care.
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