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Electrical and Lightning Injuries
Although electrical injuries are rare, patients who present with these injuries to emergency departments pose particular challenges to emergency physicians and trauma surgeons.
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Eluxadoline for IBS-D
Eluxadoline demonstrated a modest but statistically significant greater ability to reach the primary endpoint and was generally well tolerated.
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Sexual Health Supplement Leads to Priapism
In addition to personal preferences, which often motivate patients to seek non-traditional treatments, the current high cost of FDA-approved pharmacologic treatments may motivate some individuals to seek much less expensive OTC remedies.
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Improving hand hygiene compliance with new technology
Web-based application produces big gains in compliance, significant reductions in healthcare-associated infections.
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Using swarm intelligence to boost the root cause analysis process and enhance patient safety
The key to the swarming approach is a blame-free environment and rock-solid support from hospital leadership.
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New policy changes regarding observation are boon to emergency medicine
The key lies in understanding how the changes affect coding, billing practices.
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Study: Drug shortages in emergency settings worsen; root causes unknown
Researchers call for thorough investigation into cause and urge aggressive solutions.
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CMS proposes prioritizing patient preferences, linking patients to follow-up care in discharge planning process
Emergency medicine clinicians are concerned that the infrastructure is not yet in place to facilitate successful implementation of proposed rule.
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Cleveland hospitals increase capacity, hire additional staff to help end ambulance diversion
Hospital leaders pledge to make a ban on diversions stick, but some outsiders question whether a voluntary pact will work.
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Commonly Missed Radiographic Findings
The practice of medicine involves judgment, the weighing of possibilities and probabilities. Even more so when interpreting radiographs.