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Ethical Issues in Interhospital Transfers of Emergency Department Patients

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Emergency departments (EDs) provide the essential service of evaluating patients with unscheduled, acute, undifferentiated, and decompensated conditions. 2 This article discusses the practical and ethical issues of interhospital transfer of these patients. ED crowding impairs this mission. Click to enlarge.

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Tips for Real-Time Information Sharing with Patients

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In turn, concerns have arisen regarding when information blocking is appropriate and what ethical issues emergency department (ED) physicians must consider prior to information blocking. 2 Information blocking is any practice that is “likely to interfere with access, exchange, or use of [EHI].”