ACEP Now

OCTOBER 30, 2024

We don’t incentivize experience in our systems and our laws – both the provider’s experience as well as the patient’s experience, so when it comes to hospital boarding, it falls right in line with that. Another is to deliver the best patient care you possibly can, and those things don’t work very well together.

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ACEP Now

AUGUST 22, 2023

Regardless of the domain, somewhere an expert panel has convened to issue a pronouncement informing all of the ideal care of patients under their specialty umbrella, indirectly extending to their care in the emergency department. 1 To date, there have been three GRACE publications. 1 To date, there have been three GRACE publications.

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ACEP Now

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The reason I think orthopedists have done so well because they’ve been involved, they’ve been politically engaged, they’ve used their assets to preserve their assets. There’s no hard line for how many hours you should be measured on in terms of boarding or in terms of how long you’re in the emergency department.

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Telemedicine Critical Access Hospitals Emergency Department 105

ACEP Now

AUGUST 1, 2023

How does that apply to the role of the board certified emergency physician? Fundamentally, I believe every patient coming to an emergency department is best served by care delivered by board certified emergency physicians. Coach John Wooden was famous for focusing on the fundamentals, sometimes called “little things.”

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Emergency Department EMS Critical Access Hospitals 98

EMDocs

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Johnson, MD ( Community EM, Salina Regional Health Center) // Reviewed by: Joshua Lowe, MD (EM Attending Physician, USAF); Marina Boushra, MD (Cleveland Clinic Foundation, EM-CCM); Brit Long, MD (@long_brit) Case A 40-year-old woman presents to a rural emergency department (ED) with left leg pain and swelling for the past 5 days.

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ACEP Now

JULY 6, 2023

Emergency physicians have earned the right to “re-brand” ourselves as indispensable, money-saving change agents in the health care enterprise. Of course, the bill for any episode of emergency department (ED) care can be substantial, exceeding the billed charges for equivalent care provided in some primary care offices.

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Head Injuries Emergency Department Research Pediatrics 52

RebelEM

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Background: Pneumothorax management is a common clinical condition in the emergency department (ED) occurring in patients of varying ages and caused by multiple etiologies, including spontaneous, traumatic, and iatrogenic pneumothorax. Regardless of the cause, a thoracostomy is often required for treatment (Currie 2007 ).

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Outcomes Hospitals Research Critical Access 52