Table 2.
Characteristics of EMTALA citations by service type and deficiency in 2005 and 2014.
| Year |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristics | 2005 | 2014 | |||
| EMTALA citations (n) | 248 | 159 | |||
| Hospitals cited (n) | 232 | 154 | |||
| Citation service category | No. | % | No. | % | |
| Medical | 130 | 52 | 96 | 60 | |
| Psychiatric | 45 | 18 | 32 | 20 | |
| Obstetric | 13 | 5 | 5 | 3 | |
| Labor | 32 | 13 | 17 | 11 | |
| Trauma | 25 | 10 | 14 | 9 | |
| Surgical | 41 | 17 | 11 | 7 | |
| No service type listed | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |
| Allegation subtypes | |||||
| 2400 | Policies and procedures | 163 | 66 | 121 | 76 |
| 2401 | Recipient hospital reporting | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2402 | Sign posting | 23 | 9 | 15 | 9 |
| 2403 | Maintenance of transfer records | 8 | 3 | 5 | 3 |
| 2404 | Physician on-call list and availability | 38 | 15 | 20 | 13 |
| 2405 | Central log | 74 | 30 | 38 | 24 |
| 2406 | Appropriate medical screening exam | 132 | 53 | 96 | 60 |
| 2407 | Stabilizing treatment | 65 | 26 | 29 | 18 |
| 2408 | Delay in examination or treatment | 16 | 6 | 11 | 7 |
| 2409 | Restricting transfer until stabilized | 64 | 26 | 51 | 32 |
| 2410 | Whistle-blower protections | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2411 | Recipient hospital responsibilities | 51 | 21 | 15 | 9 |