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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. Improving patient safety systems for patients with limited English proficiency: a guide for hospitals. Hospital and health system-level interventions to improve care for limited English proficiency patients: a systematic review. August 2016.

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

EB Medicine

Another study found a 1-year post Roux-en-y ED visit rate of 31% and yet another found that 25% of these patients will require admission within 2 years of surgery. While it was < 15% in 1990, by 2016 it reached 40%. Jeff: And we also have the AspireAssist siphon, which was approved in 2016. Jeff: Well that’s kind worrisome.