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Hospitals in Boston, like facilities in many other major cities, are paying $1,000 or more to lure specialists to be on-call for ED coverage, according to a recent article in the The Boston Globe.
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In the wake of patient complaints about long wait times and lengths of stay, the ED leadership at Williamsport (PA) Hospital took the bull by the horns and has instituted several concurrent initiatives aimed at turning things around.
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Both nurses and physicians are at high risk for communication lapses during change of shift, says Francis L. Counselman, MD, chairman and program director for the department of emergency medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School.
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The number of ED patients who leave without being seen (LWBS) has increased from 1.1 million in 1995 to 2.1 million in 2002, and also, vulnerable populations such as younger, Hispanic, and uninsured patients are at higher risk, says a new study.
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Many health care providers harbor the delusion that hospital 'incident reports,' or 'occurrence screens,' are privileged and protected from discovery or admission as evidence against them in malpractice litigation.
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When a physician and patient disagree about medical testing and treatment, in most circumstances the patient has the right to refuse further care, even if that refusal may result in the patient's death.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of Atlanta, GA, issued a report on March 8, 2007, titled "A Heightened National Response to the HIV/AIDS Crisis Among African Americans."
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An international expert consultation convened by the World Health Organization (WHO) of Geneva, Switzerland and the UNAIDS Secretariat recommends that male circumcision be recognized as an important HIV prevention intervention in reducing the risk of heterosexually acquired HIV infection in men.
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This important study compared an outpatient cohort of 471 HIV-infected outpatients living in the Midwest to data files from the NHANES cohort of HIV-negative subjects matched by age, sex, race, and tobacco use.
