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Some 91% of health care IT decision makers and executives say that HIPAA regulations influence or strongly influence their IT purchasing decisions, according to a survey by electronic access management tool developer Imprivata.
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The Planetree model is almost 30 years old but its essence is timeless, says Janet Powell Morin, RN, chief culture officer and former vice president, patient care services at Mid-Columbia Medical Center (MCMC) in The Dalles, OR.
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In early July, The Joint Commission issued a Sentinel Event Alert on behavior among health care professionals and its effect on care.
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The scenario of a resident physician who is involved in a medical malpractice case occurs more commonly than you might think in the day-to-day practice of emergency medicine.
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Low back pain (LBP) is a common (more than 3 million ED visits per year in the United States) yet typically benign ED complaint.
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A 15-year-old girl's mother demands that you give her daughter a pregnancy test, but the child refuses. What do you do?
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Consider this scenario: During a malpractice trial involving a patient's adverse outcome in your ED, the jury learns that you've been in the habit of accepting expensive dinners and vacations from drug companies.
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Patients with diabetes mellitus make up a substantial proportion of those undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), and they are at higher risk for post-procedural complications.
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The atrial fibrillation and congestive heart Failure (AF-CHF) trial was designed to test the hypothesis that a treatment strategy that involved rhythm control would be superior to rate control in patients with heart failure and left ventricular systolic dysfunction.
