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More dosage errors are made in the ED than other hospital departments, and fewer potential dosage errors are caught before they occur, according to a new report from the Rockville, MD-based United States Pharmacopeia (USP), which analyzed medication error reports submitted to its national database in 2001.
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If a chronic schizophrenic with recurrent hallucinations or a suicidal college student comes to your ED, what comes to mind as the most immediate need? Is it an immediate mental health consultation or a time-consuming assortment of expensive diagnostic tests?
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You may have an effective, well-rehearsed disaster plan, but have you included the community in your planning? A report from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations makes it clear that surveyors will be looking for evidence that you have done so.
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It happens in every ED: Patients with difficult line access are stuck multiple times some as many as 10-15 times in an attempt to access an intravenous (IV) line.
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Save up to $700,000 by making this change
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Your reimbursement will change dramatically when nationally uniform facility assessment criteria are implemented by Medicare, probably in January 2004, predicts Caral Edelberg, CPC, CCS-P, president of Medical Management Resources in Jacksonville, FL. This will be huge news for the ED, she predicts.
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The growing awareness and interest in schistosomiasis among travelers to endemic areas was a topic of discussion at the recent eighth Conference of the International Society of Travel Medicine. In addition, there are several new relevant publications in this area.
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Health officials in Wisconsin have confirmed 4 cases of monkeypox in the Milwaukee area in what is believed to be the first outbreak of the disease in the Western Hemisphere.
