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Emergency Medicine Stakeholders Voice Priorities for Healthcare Reform, Urge Individual Clinicians to Get Involved
With the Affordable Care Act under fire, both physicians and nurses want to preserve access, but they’re over high deductibles and narrow networks.
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In Search of Effective Solutions to Curb Workplace Violence
Investigators note that a unit-based, worksite intervention requires few resources, but there must be a database and a uniform reporting system to drive improvements.
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EDs Report Strong Surges in Flu-related Volume, Straining Capacity in Some Regions
Hospitals that see high numbers of older, complex patients experience added challenges.
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Are There Definitive Clues?
How certain are you that the run of wide complex tachycardia that begins with beat #4 is ventricular tachycardia?
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Clinical Briefs
In this section: targeting the culprit of obesity; a skeptical look at urinalysis; and comparing treatments for peripheral artery disease.
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Etelcalcetide Injection (Parsabiv)
Etelcalcetide is indicated for secondary hyperparathyroidism in adult patients presenting with chronic kidney disease and who are on hemodialysis.
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Discharge Antibiotic Prescriptions Often Are Inappropriate With Regard to Choice, Dose, Duration
Seventy percent of discharge antibiotic prescriptions are inappropriate.
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American Heart Association Recognizes Cardiorespiratory Fitness Should Be Incorporated Into Risk Calculators
Recognizing the many years of data linking cardiorespiratory fitness to cardiovascular and overall mortality, the American Heart Association says cardiorespiratory fitness should be measured or estimated routinely in patients and added to cardiovascular risk calculators.
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Role of Statins in Venous Thromboembolism Prevention
A large-scale systematic review and meta-analysis found a 15-25% reduction in relative risk for venous thromboembolism in those who used statins vs. those who did not.
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Family Caregivers: What They Mean to Discharge Planning, Length of Stay, and Readmissions
This month describes the role of the family caregiver in supporting patients as they transition home, what the role is really about, and the role of the case manager in supporting and educating family caregivers.