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U.S. emergency rooms getting better-prepared for kids

By Andrew M. Seaman (Reuters Health) – U.S. emergency departments are better prepared these days to care for young patients, a new study shows. The average readiness score for emergency departments responding to a survey in 2013 was about 69 percent, compared to an average score of about 55 percent in 2003, researchers say. “I’d say it’s a lot better,” said Dr. Marianne Gausche-Hill, the study’s lead author and chief