EMDocs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The goal of MMI-LFL is to improve patient safety, educate physicians and reduce the cost and stress of medical malpractice lawsuits. Chuck Pilcher, MD, FACEP Editor, Medical Malpractice Insights Editor, Med Mal Insights Excellent documentation supports standard of care, avoids lawsuit Vertebral artery CVA leaves patient disabled.

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Documentation/Coding Stroke Outcomes EMS 104

Pediatric EM Morsels

OCTOBER 27, 2023

He, along with Dr. Bob Luten, a PEM physician in Jacksonville, FL , designed the Broselow-Luten color-coded length-based system to help estimate a child’s weight, and thereby offload the cognitive burden of medication dosing and choice of equipment sizes in pediatric resuscitations. .” Available at: [link] (Accessed: 26 October 2023).

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Pediatrics Resuscitation Documentation/Coding Wellness 271

EMDocs

JUNE 13, 2024

The goal of MMI-LFL is to improve patient safety, educate physicians and reduce the cost and stress of medical malpractice lawsuits. Doctors and nurses rarely use the written medication instructions in the EHR, but we always verbally warn every patient about watching for diarrhea when an antibiotic is prescribed. EM, April 2011.

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Documentation/Coding Patient Safety Emergency Department Hospitals 98

EMDocs

AUGUST 22, 2024

13 Interventions may include: Ascertaining a patient’s preferred language early in the clinical encounter (during registration, for instance), and clearly documenting this preference in a place that is visible to all providers. Educating patients on their rights. Utilizing certified interpreters and documenting their use.

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

ACEP Now

AUGUST 1, 2023

The weighting must strongly be on patient safety and on expanding the opportunities for board certified emergency physicians. Every patient in a U.S. emergency department deserves access to an emergency physician no matter their zip code. We must always work against a balance. Three take home points for what I believe.

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Emergency Department EMS Critical Access Hospitals 98

Mind The Bleep

JULY 26, 2023

Good Medical Practice is the GMC’s core guidance document (a new version is out this year) and there are supporting documents covering important areas like consent , confidentiality , prescribing and treating children. Take care to document these discussions in the records. Most employers will have a chaperones policy too.

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Documentation/Coding Patient Safety Wellness Hospitals 52

ACEP Now

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Managing and caring for aggressive patients may involve calling for security or physical and chemical restraints, but these interventions are temporary and have potential to further harm patients physically and mentally. Accessed October 10, 2023. 2023;(3):415-424. Accessed October 10, 2023. Published 2018.

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Emergency Department Documentation/Coding Psychiatric Best Practices 52