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Associations between the number of patients managed (hospital volume) and improved patient survival have been extensively documented in the surgical literaturesuch as cardiac surgery, ruptured aortic aneurysm, and several types of cancer surgeryand suggested for selected medical conditions, such as acute myocardial infarction and the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
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Over a 3-month period, all patients who required mechanical ventilation in the ICU of Tygerberg Academic Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, were enrolled in this study.
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While our nations' emergency physicians were considerate enough to hold their annual scientific assembly in weather-ravaged New Orleans, the courts in the Bayou dealt the house of medicine its version of a tsunami and trailing hurricane ...
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Knowledge of the requirements of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) is lacking in the emergency department (ED), according to a recent study.
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A 49-year-old woman waits for two hours at Vista Medical Center in Waukegan, IL's ED after reporting chest pain, shortness of breath, and nausea to the triage nurse.
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In tandem with the movement toward electronic medical records, electronic prescribing has gained momentum, most notably with the mandate found in the Medicare Modernization Act to adopt standards by 2008.
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The ED at Tahlequah (OK) City Hospital has been on diversion for just one hour in the past two years, says Brian Hail, RN, director of the department. According to Hail, his department has combined the good fortune of close proximity to another hospital with an array of targeted strategies to achieve such an impressive statistic.
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Numerous emergency medicine experts have noted that a number of ED overcrowding and flow problems really are hospitalwide problems; few, however, have recommended running a hospital "like" an ED to solve those problems.
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There has been a significant amount of confusion among ED managers and others regarding a new national patient safety goal on patient suicides, according to the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
