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Preparation for Emergency Infectious Outbreak in your ED – Coronavirus

Emergency Medicine Cases

Although the mortality rate in patients with Coronavirus in this outbreak is less than 1% (which pales in comparison to Ebola or SARS), historically these types of outbreaks have occured every 5-6 years (SARS 2003, HINI 2009, Ebola 2014, Coronavirus 2020), so they are somewhat predictable and we should know how to prepare for them in our EDs.

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Improving Care for Patients with a Non-English Language Preference (NELP)

EMDocs

Train your staff on best practices for using phone interpreters. There are several tools that help us identify our implicit biases and bring cultural humility into our daily practice. Conducting research regarding best practices for improving health outcomes for NELP patients. July-August 2003. April 2007.

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2024 ACEP Elections Preview: Meet the Board of Directors Candidates

ACEP Now

By attending networking events, conferences, and regional meetings, prospective members will have the opportunity to connect with other emergency physicians, share best practices, and collaborate on research or quality improvement projects. Emergency physicians that seek a network of colleagues may be inclined to join ACEP.

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Pediatric Pain

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

Children have long suffered from an under-treatment of their pain, due both to our incomplete acknowledgement of their pain and our fear of treatment ( Howard 2003 ). Best practice for fever management with intravenous acetaminophen in pediatric oncology. The sedation mindset: philosophy, science, and practice.

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The Rapid Ideological Retraction of a Scientific Article on Rapid Onset-Gender Dysphoria

Sensible Medicine

We will keep you informed of the outcome of these investigations in due course as per COPE best practice guideline.” ” I am skeptical that this will happen. Why Was the Article Retracted? Retraction is increasingly a vehicle for scientific censorship (Clark et al., I am different. Interrogating gender-exploratory therapy.

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