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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 5: Management of the child with mental health problems who is boarded in the ED

PEMBlog

Children’s Mental Health Emergency Department Visits: 2007-2016. Parent/Professional Advocacy League: Best Practices: Pediatric Emergency Department Psychiatric Boarding Kraft CM, Morea P, Teresi B, et al. Pediatrics. 2021;147(5):e2020030692. doi: 10.1542/peds.2020-030692 Pediatrics. 2020 Jun;145(6):e20191536.

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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. August 2016. April 2007.

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Healthcare Providers’ Role in Preventing Fraud, Waste, and Abuse 

American Medical Compliance

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) estimated that improper payments in the Medicare and Medicaid programs exceeded $100 billion from 2016 to 2023. Fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA) in healthcare present significant challenges, causing substantial financial losses, eroding public trust, and compromising the quality of patient care.

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Choosing wisely – less can be more

Don't Forget the Bubbles

The campaign started in the United States in 2012, in Canada two years later, and in the United Kingdom in 2016. Choosing Wisely UK was launched in 2016 by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges to identify tests, treatments, and procedures of questionable value. 2016 ;50(13):826-8. What is the aim of choosing Wisely?

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Tips for Real-Time Information Sharing with Patients

ACEP Now

1 In 2016, the 21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act) took additional steps to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to identify and define information blocking and associated exceptions. 2 Information blocking is any practice that is “likely to interfere with access, exchange, or use of [EHI].” Published December 16, 2016.

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PEM Currents – Agitation in Children – Episode 5: The Boarded ED Patient

EMDocs

ED Best Practices Optimizing the Environment Separate area from main ED is possible that has less distractions, loud noises. Children’s Mental Health Emergency Department Visits: 2007-2016. Parent/Professional Advocacy League: Best Practices: Pediatric Emergency Department Psychiatric Boarding Kraft CM, Morea P, Teresi B, et al.

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Episode 30 - Emergency Department Management of Patients With Complications of Bariatric Surgery

EB Medicine

While it was < 15% in 1990, by 2016 it reached 40%. Nachi: Recent estimates from 2015-2016 put the prevalence of obesity of those 2 years old to 19 years old at about 19%. Jeff: And we also have the AspireAssist siphon, which was approved in 2016. Society practice guidelines) Chousleb E, Chousleb A. million adults!!