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Nocturnal Enuresis: Are Your Patients Affected?
Nocturnal enuresis was prevalent in women seen in a urogynecology setting and can be associated with nocturia, overactive bladder symptoms, and stress incontinence.
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Is Exposure to Arterial Hyperoxia During Critical Illness Dangerous?
Exposure to severe hyperoxia during critical illness is associated positively with increased ICU and hospital mortality and associated negatively with ventilator-free days.
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Risk Factors for Hospital Readmissions Ending in Death or Transition to Hospice
This study highlights factors that are associated with an increased risk of hospital readmission within 30 days and adds to the growing body of literature on healthcare use after a hospitalization for sepsis.
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Healthcare Use in Survivors of Sepsis
The need to understand patterns of healthcare use in sepsis survivors has gained momentum to assess whether readmissions could be prevented.
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EPs Caught Between Patient Care and Law Enforcement Requests
EPs always must consider the patient’s best interest.
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EMTALA Claim Against Individual EP: ‘Almost Always an Empty Threat’
Some use EMTALA as leverage to coerce settlement.
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What Happens When an ED Chart Shows PA ‘Went Rogue?’
EP can be held liable if physician assistant’s care was negligent.
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Are EP and Hospital Jointly Defending Med/Mal Lawsuit?
EP will face repercussions if pointing finger at hospital.
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CANDOR: An Evolving Approach to Patient Harm
While most agree transparency, forthrightness, and 'doing the right thing' for patients and their families are ethical imperatives, practical concerns and lack of definitive data have yet to prove conclusively they will make a difference.
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Data Reveal Top Causes of Duplicate Records
More than one strategy needed.