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Since there are no guarantees as to when or if the objections of emergency medicine groups to standard MM 4.10 from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations will result in any modifications, it's critical for ED managers to know exactly what the Joint Commission is looking for when it comes to compliance with the standard.
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Computer screening may increase the odds that a woman at risk for domestic violence will talk to a health care professional in the ED, according to a recent article in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
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The Institute of Medicine's (IOM's) three-year "Future of Emergency Care" project, recently completed, includes recommendations for the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
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Annually, more than 16 million people suffer some form of hand injury with more than 4.8 million seen in emergency departments (EDs).
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Infants with an apparent life-threatening event (ALTE) present for medical attention because an acute and unexpected change in behavior has alarmed the caregivers.
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Corticosteroids have been studied in various phases in the treatment of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), which is characterized by an inflammatory injury to the lung resulting in acute hypoxemic respiratory failure. Four trials of steroids in early ARDS failed to show any improvement.
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Artinian and colleagues performed a retrospective analysis on a large prospectively acquired database from ICUs across the United States to examine the effect of initiating early enteral feeding on outcomes in non-surgical, mechanically ventilated ICU patients.
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Mueller and colleagues at the University Hospital in Basel, Switzerland, investigated the clinical utility and cost-effectiveness of immediately measuring the serum level of B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) in patients presenting to the emergency department with acute dyspnea.
