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High-risk ED Abdominal Cases Involved These Diagnostic Errors
Researchers developed an electronic tool to identify patients who presented to the ED of an urban academic hospital with acute abdominal pain who were discharged home, had a return ED visit within 10 days, and were admitted to the hospital when they returned.
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Plaintiff Attorney Could Have Tough Time Proving Causation in ED Med/Mal Suit
The plaintiff’s attorney must prove that the EP breached the standard of care, and that the breach caused the alleged damages.
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Electrical and Lightning Injuries
Although electrical injuries are rare, patients who present with these injuries to emergency departments pose particular challenges to emergency physicians and trauma surgeons.
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Improving hand hygiene compliance with new technology
Web-based application produces big gains in compliance, significant reductions in healthcare-associated infections.
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Using swarm intelligence to boost the root cause analysis process and enhance patient safety
The key to the swarming approach is a blame-free environment and rock-solid support from hospital leadership.
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New policy changes regarding observation are boon to emergency medicine
The key lies in understanding how the changes affect coding, billing practices.
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Study: Drug shortages in emergency settings worsen; root causes unknown
Researchers call for thorough investigation into cause and urge aggressive solutions.
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CMS proposes prioritizing patient preferences, linking patients to follow-up care in discharge planning process
Emergency medicine clinicians are concerned that the infrastructure is not yet in place to facilitate successful implementation of proposed rule.
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Cleveland hospitals increase capacity, hire additional staff to help end ambulance diversion
Hospital leaders pledge to make a ban on diversions stick, but some outsiders question whether a voluntary pact will work.
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Commonly Missed Radiographic Findings
The practice of medicine involves judgment, the weighing of possibilities and probabilities. Even more so when interpreting radiographs.