ACEP Now

JUNE 13, 2024

ACEP prioritized attendance of hospital groups at this boarding summit so they could hear firsthand the impact that boarding is having on patients, physicians, and other health care workers, and also answer to this growing crisis. Representatives from both groups attended.

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ACEP Now

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The Story in Data Violence experienced in the ED is often due to agitated, confused, or delirious patients. A study done at the University of Kansas found that approximately 10 percent of the ED volume at a local county hospital was attributed to some type of behavioral emergency and that approximately one in eight ED visits in the U.S

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Emergency Department Documentation/Coding Psychiatric Best Practices 52

ACEP Now

OCTOBER 9, 2024

We understand there are large community hospitals, academic centers and rural hospitals with vastly different resources and needs. However, when a patient walks through the door, they want to know there are resources available for that ED to delivery high quality care.” There are five sets of domains.

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EMDocs

JULY 20, 2023

– Inclusion criteria: Included patients aged 18 or above, who had a baseline NIHSS 10 or greater (obtained within one hour before measuring infarct volume) across 26 hospitals in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia. Patient had to be able to be randomized between 6-24 hours after last known well.

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ACEP Now

AUGUST 1, 2023

Hospital crowding and ED boarding have been longstanding and persistent crises for more than two decades, yet have progressively worsened over the COVID-19 pandemic.2 2 Early pandemic days brought uncertainty, personal risks to clinicians, and waves of COVID-19 patients. There is no easy fix to the nurse-supply problem.

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EB Medicine

MAY 3, 2019

Jeff: As a quick survey of our audience before we begin, how many of you routinely encounter co-morbid psychiatric conditions in your ED patients, especially depression? Jeff: And how many of you struggle to admit or transfer patients for a formal psychiatric eval? Nachi: That would certainly be all of our listeners!

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Emergency Department Psychiatric Documentation/Coding Outcomes 40

Don't Forget the Bubbles

MAY 15, 2023

As such, thresholds for intervention remain under debate and vary across different hospitals and countries. In general, management centres around education focusing on avoiding prolonged fasts (<12hrs) and emphasising low threshold for admission to hospital if the child is not eating or is vomiting. Frontiers in Endocrinology.

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