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The Joint Commission has proposed standards revisions that could weaken infection control programs "significantly at a time when health care-associated infections (HAIs) are receiving increasing attention by legislators, payers, and consumers," ...
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In last year's report on the 2006 ED Management Salary Survey, we noted that while there was a shortage of ED nurses and physicians, compensation for ED directors and managers had failed to reflect that shortage.
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Increasingly, the anesthesia department is directing guidelines and training requirements for procedural sedation in hospitals, including the ED.
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There are two major liability risks associated with training requirements for procedural sedation: Failing to adhere to your organization's criteria, or having criteria inconsistent with accepted medical practice.
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A communication strategy using the SBAR (Situation, Background, Assessment, and Recommendation) template is being implemented by EDs to improve handoffs to other hospital departments.
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WISDOM was a multicenter, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial of postmenopausal hormone therapy that began recruitment in 1999 in the U.K. and in 2000 in Australia and New Zealand. The trial was prematurely cancelled in 2002 after the initial publication of results in the Women's Health Initiative (WHI).
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It is one thing to be empathetic, but it is something quite different to be able to convey empathy to the patient.
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Zometa and hip fractures; Merck HIV Vaccine Ineffective in Clinical Trial; Thimerosal and Mercury Exposure; FDA Actions
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The title says it all in this randomized controlled trial by Sullivan and colleagues "Administration of cefazolin prior to skin incision is superior to cefazolin at cord clamping in preventing post-cesarean infectious morbidity."
