AENJ: Current Issue

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Pressure injuries (PIs) are an important quality and patient safety metric for health care organizations. PI monitoring and treatment are often overlooked in the emergency department (ED). Emergency care professionals must be proactive about PI early identification and prevention strategies.

Emergency Department 77

Emergency Department Patient Safety Documentation/Coding Research 77

ACEP Now

MARCH 13, 2024

Emergency departments (EDs) provide the essential service of evaluating patients with unscheduled, acute, undifferentiated, and decompensated conditions. Consequences of this are well documented and include delayed treatment, exposure to error, increased length of stay, and increased mortality. PloS one 13.8

Ethical Issues 52

Ethical Issues Emergency Department Operations Hospitals 52

EMDocs

AUGUST 22, 2024

12 How do we address these disparities in the emergency department? As providers, we must advocate for systemic and individual changes to improve care for NELP patients. Educating patients on their rights. This is commonly seen with Deaf patients who communicate using American Sign Language and require an ASL interpreter.

Documentation/Coding 82

Documentation/Coding Emergency Department Best Practices Federal Emergency Management Agency 82

EMDocs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The goal of MMI-LFL is to improve patient safety, educate physicians and reduce the cost and stress of medical malpractice lawsuits. The radiologist finds significant cardiomegaly and sends a report to both the ED and the patient’s PCP. It wasn’t, so you weren’t called, nor did the doc need to document anything.

Radiology 75

Radiology Radiology EKG/ECG Documentation/Coding 75

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.

Documentation/Coding 78

Documentation/Coding Patient Safety Emergency Department Hospitals 78

EMDocs

JULY 25, 2024

The goal of MMI-LFL is to improve patient safety, educate physicians and reduce the cost and stress of medical malpractice lawsuits. 0321 : During triage one of the officers informs the nurse of the patient’s detailed suicide plan. There is no documented handoff to the on-coming emergency physician (EP) who assumes care.

Documentation/Coding 82

Documentation/Coding Hospitals Patient Safety Emergency Department 82

EB Medicine

JULY 8, 2019

This month, we are sticking in the abdomen for another round of evidence-based medicine, focusing on Emergency Department Management of Patients With Complications of Bariatric Surgery. Vitamin D, B12, Calcium, foate, iron, and thiamine deficiencies are all well documented complications. Obesity (Silver Spring).

Emergency Department 40

Emergency Department Sepsis Operations Dehydration 40