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The problem of fatigued medical residents has gotten the attention of the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
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Current ACGME standard (2003)
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Ever since 1796, when Edward Jenner introduced the world's first vaccine against smallpox, the role of vaccination has arguably become one of the most important advances in medicine.
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FDA Advisory Committee recommends approval of dabigatran, safety of proton pump inhibitors, effectiveness of glucosamine and chondroitin, FDA Actions.
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Every summer The Joint Commission issues a list of those standards hospitals find most difficult to comply with.
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Initial data on the use of cell phone photos of injuries, taken by the patients themselves in the ED at The George Washington University Hospital in Washington, DC, offers the promise that they might have the potential to speed treatment without sacrificing diagnostic accuracy.
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Despite the adage, "If it wasn't documented, it wasn't done," not everything that ED nurses and physicians do is actually documented.