American Medical Compliance

JANUARY 12, 2024

The responsibility of ensuring patient safety has now moved from hospital staff to individual users with access to laser technology, which was previously only available in operating rooms of hospitals. The most deadly of all dangers is complacency, therefore it’s critical to adopt a risk management approach to laser safety.

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Operations Patient Safety Risk Management Hospitals 52

ACEP Now

AUGUST 15, 2023

The key to answering this question, no matter where you are, is to engage your hospital attorney or risk manager. Case Resolution You place a call to your on-call hospital lawyer. Discussion The answer to that question varies with your practice location. Click to enlarge.

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Sexual Assault Forensics EMS Risk Management 52

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

DECEMBER 18, 2014

Presentation ten most famous medical mistakes Information Systems Ten commandments for implementing clinical information systems Ten Commandments for Effective Clinical Decision Support: Making the Practice of Evidence-based Medicine a Reality Risk Mgmt. Memon, A., & Kaliff, J.

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Mass Casualty Incidents Burns Urgent Care Pediatrics 40

ACEP Now

JANUARY 14, 2024

Dr. Helman is an emergency physician at North York General Hospital in Toronto. Adverse drug events in hospitalized patients. The relationship between potential drug-drug interactions and mortality rate of elderly hospitalized patients. Polypharmacy, hospitalization, and mortality risk: a nationwide cohort study.

Psychiatric 52

Psychiatric Emergency Department Hospitals EMS 52

ACEP Now

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Participating in the demonstration on April 24 th allowed us to join local and national organizations, a refreshing break from long hours in the hospital, to declare that abortion is healthcare and reproductive rights are human rights. The post Advocating for Patients appeared first on ACEP Now.

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OB/GYN Emergency Department Leadership Risk Management 105

EMDocs

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Patients with complicated acute diverticulitis should be admitted to the hospital. Ther Clin Risk Manag. Diverticulitis is considered complicated in patients with abnormal vital signs, signs of perforation with or without abscess, fistula or obstruction, or the inability to maintain oral intake. 2014 Apr;80(4):391-5.

Radiology 87

Radiology Radiology Operations Best Practices 87

EB Medicine

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Eckler, MD discuss the November 2024 Emergency Medicine Practice article, Emergency Department Management of Patients With Low Back Pain: A Review of Current Evidence Prevalence and Importance of Back Pain in the ED Differential Diagnosis and Serious Pathologies Patient Expectations and Management Strategies Missed Serious Pathologies and Their Implications (..)

Risk Management 87

Risk Management Emergency Department Ultrasounds EMS 87

EMDocs

JANUARY 20, 2025

2024, 33 use of ultrasound may lead to a reduction in mortality, less volume of fluids given, and decreased hospital stay. 2018 56 retrospectively analyzed visits from 30,000 children from 36 hospitals across the US and found that patients who received IV antibiotics were just as likely to return at 72 hours as those who did not.

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Dehydration Fluid Resuscitation Sepsis Resuscitation 73

EMDocs

DECEMBER 28, 2024

The management of glaucoma and intraocular hypertension: current approaches and recent advances. Ther Clin Risk Manag. Long-term outcomes after acute primary angle closure: case series from Moorfields Eye Hospital, UK. Accessed November 19, 2024. accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1199560095 2006;2(2):193-206.

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EMS Stroke Outcomes Risk Management 94