EMDocs

AUGUST 22, 2024

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. 45:446-458.

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Documentation/Coding Emergency Department Federal Emergency Management Agency Best Practices 104

ACEP Now

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Our group from Highland Hospital has set out to understand the impact on workplace violence and patient safety of initiating a BERT in a busy, county hospital ED. The well-being of our patients, staff, and ourselves depends on finding tailored and effective solutions and dissemination of these best practices.

Emergency Department 52

Emergency Department Documentation/Coding Psychiatric Best Practices 52

EB Medicine

JULY 8, 2019

Nachi: Taken all together, the rising rates of obesity and the rising success and availability of bariatric procedures has led to an increased number of bariatric procedures, with 228,000 performed in the US in 2017. In 2017, these were performed 60%, 18%, and 3% of the time. Society practice guidelines) Phillips BT, Shikora SA.

Emergency Department 40

Emergency Department Sepsis Operations Dehydration 40

American Medical Compliance

MAY 13, 2024

As a dental professional, your role in managing pain and prescribing medications is crucial, not only for the immediate comfort of your patients but also for their long-term health and well-being. The Opioid Epidemic As of October 16, 2017, the US government officially declared the opioid epidemic a public health emergency.

Evidence-Based Practice 52

Evidence-Based Practice Best Practices Patient Safety Wellness 52

EB Medicine

MAY 3, 2019

Jeff: a 2017 ACEP clinical policy also recommends against routine lab testing in those with acute psychiatric complaints. Nachi: With the staff notified and the patient searched, the patient should be placed in a room without potentially dangerous items, like tubing or needles.

Emergency Department 40

Emergency Department Psychiatric Documentation/Coding Outcomes 40