ED Management – December 1, 2006
December 1, 2006
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Celebrities in the ED: Managers often face both ethical and operational challenges
Despite their efforts to maintain a perfect image in the press, celebrities have many of the same experiences as your everyday patients. They get sick and injured, and they go to the hospital. -
Temblor drives ED staff, patients into outdoor tent
While weather-related disasters such as hurricanes or tornadoes can present some tough challenges for an ED manager, you generally have at least a few hours to prepare for the possibility of severe weather. -
HICS is updated for consistency with NIMS
The California Emergency Medical Services Authority has released an updated version of the Hospital Incident Command System (HICS), an incident management system to help hospitals improve their emergency planning and response capabilities. -
QI project slashes mislabeling rates
The ED at Boston Medical Center has reduced major mislabeling events from 47% (23/49) to 14% (4/29) in a year, thanks to a quality improvement project that kept the ED informed weekly when errors occurred. -
Caffeine abuse may be missed in the ED
Caffeine abuse may be an emerging problem among young people, according to research summarized in a poster presented in October at the annual American College of Emergency Medicine Scientific Assembly. -
'Mystery shoppers' can uncover ED weaknesses
The next patient you see in your ED may be a "mystery shopper" and you won't even know it. -
Final 2007 OPPS rule has some good news for EDs
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) final rule for Medicare payment for hospital outpatient services in calendar year 2007 contains several new wrinkles that will benefit EDs, say observers. Among them is a significant boost in ambulatory payment classification (APC) rates. -
Have clinical staff wear locator badges
At Swedish Medical Center's ED in Seattle, clinical staff wear locator badges (Versus; Traverse City, MI) that identify where specific individuals are located, via a light above the patient rooms and on a tracking view of a computer.