Emergency Medicine

A new study from Penn Medicine shows providing tailored data improves prescribing and maintains patient comfort.

Muir, an assistant professor in the Department of Family and Community Health at Penn Nursing and emergency medicine at Penn Medicine, and a senior fellow in the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research and in the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, has won the 2025 Nurse Researcher Award from the Emergency Nurses Association. The award honors individuals who have significantly contributed to the field of emergency nursing through research, dissemination of findings, and/or utilization of research to improve patient outcomes.

Statins are lifesaving to those with high cholesterol, but patients don’t always take them. A nudge that increased long-term prescriptions could be key.

Research from the Perelman School of Medicine and Penn Medicine’s Nudge Unit that incentivized drivers of connected cars with reward money to build and maintain seatbelt habits shows promise for promoting safer, consistent buckling behavior.

New research shows online reviews of health facilities took a negative turn after COVID and remain that way.

A partnership between the U.S. Navy and Penn Medicine’s Trauma Division aims to provide military medical staff with the skills they need for deployment.

How emergency medical teams at Penn Medicine build the playbook for disaster preparedness.

A large trial of strategies to reduce distracted driving presented by Penn Medicine experts show that those that were “gamified” yielded a lasting reduction in handheld phone usage while driving.