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

EMDocs

Well-meaning providers who are not highly fluent may contribute to miscommunication and diagnostic errors. Providers should respect and utilize this mode of communication, as well as document the patient’s request for a non-certified interpreter. Train your staff on best practices for using phone interpreters. April 2007.

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2024 ACEP Elections Preview: Meet the Board of Directors Candidates

ACEP Now

Creation of an accurate database of emergency physicians living and working within a state, as well as a network of each states’ EM groups and ED medical directors would help chapter leaders disseminate relevant information, strengthen advocacy efforts, and plan regional solutions summits to focus on unique challenges.

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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 ). Tachycardia, tachypnea, and a change in behavior can be indicators not only to the presence of pain, but possibly to its etiology as well.

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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 suspect that if a similar controversy occurred nowadays, the book might well be retracted by the publisher, in the unlikely event it would ever be published.) ” I am skeptical that this will happen.

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