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  • What are four key areas to teach in informed consent?

    Based on a survey of research participants, the office of research compliance and quality improvement at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA, has come up with these four key areas to demonstrate informed consent.
  • Biobank uses opt-out approach to gathering blood samples

    When Vanderbilt University Medical Center set about creating its BioVU biobank, it went in a different direction than most institutions.
  • Informed consent when the victim is a black male

    Young black men are disproportionately more likely than other groups to be victims of violent crime. But when researchers set out to study this group, they encounter difficulty in recruiting and retaining subjects.
  • Growing trend of identity theft poses safety and billing loss threats

    Just as identify theft has been steadily increasing in the general populace, so has it grown in the medical setting, with the ED perhaps feeling the greatest impact of all.
  • ED Accreditation Update: ED and security team up, create plan

    Several years ago the security plans for the ED at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, OH, were significantly revamped. The process required strong teamwork between ED leadership and hospital security.
  • Guest Column: ED handoffs to inpatient: Patient safety at stake

    The practice of emergency medicine is unique in that an emergency medicine physician acts as a gatekeeper. While treatment of a patient might be brief, initial examination and assessment often will dictate the course of the patient's treatment after admission to the hospital.
  • ED Accreditation Update: Joint Commission suspends 'auto' adverse decision

    The Joint Commission has suspended its policy that triggers an "automatic" adverse decision if an organization fails to complete an acceptable root cause analysis in response to a sentinel event or its related measure of success within a specified time frame. The change is retroactively effective as of Jan. 1, 2010.
  • ED Accreditation Update: TJC hopes changeaids transparency

    The Joint Commission is hoping that its suspension of a policy that triggers an "automatic" adverse decision if an organization fails to complete an acceptable root cause analysis in response to a sentinel event or its related measure of success within a specified time frame will encourage more self-reporting and advance root cause analysis activities.
  • Pharmacists in ED benefit clinical care

    [Editor's note: This is the second in a two-part series on placing pharmacists in the ED. In our last installation, we examined the performance improvements that the University of Rochester (NY) Medical Center achieved as the result of placing a pharmacist inside the ED. In addition, we discuss how a pharmacist's recommendations to dispense a medication orally instead of using an IV enabled the ED to save a considerable amount of money while at the same time improving patient safety. In this issue, we look at additional benefits these pharmacists offer, from the perspective of ED nurses and physicians.]
  • 15-minute policy results in few refunds

    Representatives at Emerus Emergency Hospitals, a licensed emergency specialty hospital company based in The Woodlands, TX, have been telling patients at several of its "24-hour EDs" for months now that if they are not seen by a physician within 15 minutes, the hospital will pay for their $1,000 visit. So far, the new policy is working quite well, say Emerus representatives.