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Follow These Strategies to Prevent Problems With Dissatisfied Patients
Unhappy patients can cause major headaches for a surgery center. Problems could lead to financial and legal issues.
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ASCs Can Take Steps to Prevent and Handle Sexual Harassment Allegations
Surgery centers can take several steps to reduce the likelihood of a sexual harassment claim or to handle one without it heading to court.
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Sexual Harassment Can Cost an ASC Millions
Sexual harassment allegations made headlines for weeks in late 2017, targeting politicians, actors, movie moguls, and others. In recent years, similar allegations also resulted in surgery centers and other healthcare organizations paying millions in fines and lawsuit damages after such allegations were ignored.
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Opioid Crisis Affects Sickle Cell Patients Presenting With Related Pain
Experts note that opioids are still a first-line therapy for patients with sickle cell disease, but providers are reluctant to prescribe opioids in the current climate.
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Medical Home Within ED Serves Needs of Sparsely Populated Region
North Carolina facility serves as one model for healthcare delivery redesign in rural communities where outcomes have not kept pace with their urban counterparts.
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How to Respond to an Unusual Hepatitis A Outbreak
Recently, several regions in the United States have experienced unusual outbreaks of hepatitis A (HAV). The most severe of these outbreaks is in San Diego, where emergency providers have taken extra steps to identify patients with HAV promptly and to offer vaccinations to patient groups deemed most at risk.
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How Would You ‘Date’ This Infarct?
The ECG in the figure was obtained from a 48-year-old man who presented to the ED with a three-day history of chest discomfort. It clearly shows evidence of infarction. How would you “date” the infarct?
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Clinical Briefs
In this section: A new Parkinson's treatment, type 2 diabetes treatment, and morphine for dyspneic acute heart failure patients.
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Zoster Vaccine Recombinant Adjuvanted (Shingrix)
Shingrix is indicated for the prevention of herpes zoster in adults ≥ 50 years of age.
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Fecal Microbiota Testing
Researchers have determined that persons with diabetes or inflammatory bowel disease — or people who have received recent antibacterial therapy — may exhibit very different microbiota profiles. Unfortunately, no one really knows what these differences mean in terms of your overall health.