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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. ACEP’s Clinical Ultrasound Accreditation Program (CUAP) strives for continuous quality management and patient safety, communication, responsibility, and clarity regarding the use of clinical ultrasound.

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Gradually Circling Around the GRACE Project’s “Reasonable Practice”

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In an environment in which patients may have their entire work-up in the waiting room, or attend a critical access hospital staffed by non-emergency physicians, or lack the financial support to follow up with an appropriate specialist, a pragmatic approach to care is required. References Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.