ACEP Now

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Some groups and practices have explored the option, understand what they’re getting into and have concluded that that they’re going to work together to get better outcomes under a unionized model. It may not be for everybody. It has clearly made sense for those groups. It’s not a decision to be taken lightly.

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

JUNE 5, 2021

He also works at an urgent care and a rural critical access hospital. He also works at an urgent care and a rural critical access hospital. Effect of Mechanical Thrombectomy Without vs With Intravenous Thrombolysis on Functional Outcome Among Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke: The SKIP Randomized Clinical Trial.

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ACEP Now

JULY 7, 2024

My current practice is a hybrid of academic and community sites, and I have worked in myriad community hospitals from busy ones to single coverage critical access hospitals. If you have a difficult outcome, it is helpful to know what risk management support you have at your hospital. Each has its own challenges and lessons.

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ACEP Now

AUGUST 1, 2023

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.

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Emergency Department EMS Critical Access Hospitals 98

EMDocs

JUNE 22, 2023

As usual, I was the only physician staffing this rural critical access hospital with limited resources which sits 61 miles away from our state’s only Level 1 trauma center. After this experience, I realized some crucial factors that contributed to this patient’s outcome: (1) Know your resources.

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RebelEM

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Heterogeneity was 0% for the primary outcome, and overall heterogeneity was low for secondary outcomes, which increases external validity. While clinically relevant and heavily debated, the primary outcome is disease-oriented and not patient-oriented. Investigators assessed publication bias depicted as a funnel plot.

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ACEP Now

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

These stakeholders are similarly shielded in court when adverse patient outcomes, such as negligent deaths, occur under their management or when the bought-out companies are challenged for anticompetitive business practices overseen by the PE firm. Borsa A, Bejarano G, Ellen M, et al. 2023;382:e075244. Kannan S, Bruch JD, Song Z.

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