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ACEP Council Tackles Key Issues During Philadelphia Meeting

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The Council consists of members representing ACEP’s 53 chapters, 39 sections of membership, the Association of Academic Chairs of Emergency Medicine, the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors, the Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association, and the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.

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ACEP Launches Pilot Phase of Its Emergency Dept. Accreditation Program

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We understand there are large community hospitals, academic centers and rural hospitals with vastly different resources and needs. ED ACCREDITATION ACEP’s ED Accreditation Program will include Level 1, Level 2, Level 3 and Rural Emergency or Critical Access Hospital accreditation. There are five sets of domains.

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Emergency Medicine Deserves to “Re-Brand” Itself as a Cost Saver

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Added benefit would accrue when a pediatric patient avoids CT images, thereby decreasing the potential risk for a subsequent cancer. Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network head injury clinical prediction rules are reliable in practice. Risk of brain tumor induction from pediatric head CT procedures. N Engl J Med.

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2023 ACEP Elections Preview: Meet the President-Elect and Council Officer Candidates

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Colleagues at the University of Mississippi Medical Center have developed a robust telehealth network with over 25 critical access hospitals in that state. One of the major areas of focus must be on the distribution of emergency physicians with opportunities within residency to have substantive rural and critical access experience.