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Hospitals need to ensure that their preprinted physician orders meet the appropriate standards for both safety and clinical standards. A multidisciplinary team at one hospital reviewed more than 450 of its existing preprinted orders and found that many fell short.
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Giving preventive medications to a patient who is overusing acute medication for headache may be a waste of time, according to a presenter at the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Midyear Clinical Meeting in December.
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Heres a snapshot of two Professional Posters presentation abstracts from the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Midyear Clinical Meeting in December.
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Three Lincoln, NE-based EDs have joined forces to tackle two of the most nagging problems facing emergency departments today: The use of EDs for primary care services, and the growing number of uninsured or underinsured patients seeking emergency care.
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Two studies to be published in the April 2006 edition of Annals of Emergency Medicine1,2 indicate that the ambulance diversion problem in America has become even more serious and is growing steadily worse.
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According to a new study in the Archives of Internal Medicine,1 ED managers may be able to predict with greater accuracy than ever before the risk of post-discharge mortality in patients presenting with shortness of breath whether they are diagnosed with heart failure.
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Researchers at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, NY, have created a new coma scale they say is superior to the commonly used Glasgow Coma Scale (GSC). The new scale, called the FOUR (Full Outline of UnResponsiveness) Score, is detailed in a recent article in the Annals of Neurology.1
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Do ED physicians overprescribe antibiotics for children with sore throats? They do, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
