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A study conducted by investigators from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the Pittsburgh Veterans Affairs Healthcare System showed that more intense implementation strategies for care of pneumonia patients than typically found in most EDs safely increased the proportion of low-risk patients who were successfully treated as outpatients.
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A new, separate area for psych patients within the ED has helped Forsyth Medical Center in Greensboro, NC, cut its average throughput time by 9% from 201 minutes to 189 minutes for all patients, according to departments manager.
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While developing and maintaining effective infection control procedures involves a large range of issues in the ED, many of them fall within two major areas: quality control and equipment/facilities.
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The next generation in patient identification and electronic medical information is now unfolding in a growing group of EDs across the country. The ED managers who are using it are convinced it will prove invaluable in the not-too-distant future.
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If the current federal budget package is approved by the House of Representatives without significant changes, it could lead to decreased revenue for EDs, says Molly Collins Offner, MHSA, senior associate director of public policy in the Washington, DC, office of the American Hospital Association.
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Beginning this year, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organization has added an emergency management committee meeting and a disaster tracer.
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To meet the National Patient Safety Goal to reconcile medications across the continuum of care, one ED is finding success with a medication reconciliation form that it developed.
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To prepare for the new unannounced survey process, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations is offering several new resources on its web site. Those resources include a computerized graphic presentation, questions and answers, and a video presentation.
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The idea of a Code Blue is well ingrained in hospitals. When the designated team hears that page for cardiac arrest, they drop everything and go running to help.
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Condition H was prompted by the experience of Sorrel King, whose daughter Josie died in 2001 at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore due to medical errors.
