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Emergency physicians perform many lifesaving procedures every day; however, none is more important than effective airway management.
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Recently, we published a series of articles on the international traveler in the ED, emphasizing the risk factors and geography. This article provides a more standard review of some of the diseases seen in travelers to tropical areas and also some, like West Nile, that have migrated into temperate climates. This article will complete our series.
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Buoyed by the success of the 5 Million Lives Campaign, the Cambridge, MA-based Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) is set to tackle its "next frontier," in the words of Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, president and CEO of IHI.
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By developing secure and private electronic health records for most Americans, and making health information available electronically when and where it is needed, health information technology (IT) can improve the quality of care, even as it makes health care more cost-effective, asserts the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality in a new report.
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Payer denials for inappropriate observation patient status dropped by 50% the first year after Good Samaritan Hospital in Dayton, OH, instituted a case management protocol that delegates responsibility for determining patient status to case managers.
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With the likelihood that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will adopt some or all of the 10 national voluntary consensus standards for hospital-based ED care recently endorsed by the National Quality Forum (NQF), experts advise ED managers to begin preparing now to be in compliance.
