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Informed Consent Can Become an Issue During ED Medical/Malpractice Litigation
While EPs often fail to discuss risks of treatments and interventions, their failure to obtain diagnostic tests is a far more common allegation in malpractice lawsuits.
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How Can Emergency Physician Counter Patient’s Claim that Exam Was Rushed?
Documentation showing the patient appeared well before discharge can make or break a case.
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High Payouts Make Missed Meningitis Cases Very Appealing to Plaintiff Attorneys
Meningitis claims are likely to be settled, even if the EP’s care was entirely appropriate and well-documented because of the extremely high payouts associated with meningitis cases.
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Simple Actions Before Discharge Can Prevent Some ED Claims
Lack of specific personalized discharge instructions and no indication of the EP’s rationale complicated the defense of a recent malpractice claim involving a 38-year-old woman who presented to an ED with abdominal pain, nausea, and a fever that resolved in the ED.
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Unique Legal Risks Posed by ED “Bridge Orders”
The expectation of everyone involved should be that bridge orders are just that — a bridge to fill the gap from when the EP relinquishes care and the admitting physician actively assumes care.
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Court Rules on Standard of Care for Pediatric Patients in “General” EDs
Recent malpractice litigation involved an infant who died of complications of enterovirus infection after being discharged from an ED.
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New rapid-deployment plasma protocol in ED
While traumatic injury is the leading cause of death among people under age 45, if given plasma quickly, they will have a better chance at survival. Now, a new protocol from the American College of Surgeons aims to reduce the average wait time of 30 minutes or longer for plasma.
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FORCE-TJR gets CMS qualification
The national hip and knee joint replacement registry has received certification from CMS as a Qualified Clinical Data Registry.
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Can you teach doctors to improve patient satisfaction?
A study in the May issue of the Journal of Hospital Medicine may give hope to physicians and the hospitals where they work that they can learn the skills needed to improve the scores related to their interactions in the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems surveys.
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Hospital Compare starts with stars
The first group of star ratings are out for Hospital Compare, CMS’ hospital rating system.