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Communication Challenges Affect Discharge Planning
Obstacles to effective care transitions include communication problems, both inside and outside the health system, according to researchers. When providers were asked about their communication concerns, they cited too many methods of communication, a high volume of communication, and challenges communicating with multiple providers and those outside their health system.
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Maternal Health Reaches a Crisis Point in the United States
The number of women dying from pregnancy-related causes in the United States has risen dramatically since 2018. Those numbers may continue to rise sharply as the nation creates more maternity deserts, obstetric staffing shortages, and obstacles to standard maternity care in states that enforce abortion bans and restrictions that affect women experiencing pregnancy crises.
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APIC 2023: No Hospital Is an Island
‘Isolated rural areas don’t have equal access to healthcare’
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U.S. Funding Targets Cancer Rates in Low-Income Neighborhoods
National Cancer Institute to manage a $50 million program to address structural and institutional factors of poverty related to cancer.
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How Emergency Medicine Leaders Can Implement an Intervention to Assess Suicide Risk
EDs will need to build a multidisciplinary implementation team to review their current care delivery, build improved protocols, deploy those protocols, adjust them iteratively over time to work out the kinks, and install methods for sustaining the effort long-term.
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EDs Face OSHA Citations for Failing to Prevent Violence
OSHA cited a Texas hospital for failing to adequately protect employees from violence, after a patient assaulted a security officer who lost consciousness and was subsequently hospitalized. The agency noted the hospital had not created policies and procedures to protect employees from assault by patients who had exhibited violent behavior.
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Legal Considerations if ED Embraces Provider in Triage Approach
Implementing standing orders at triage and taking a team approach to care, with triage nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and emergency physicians all working together, are better approaches to improve the triage process.
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Fewer Delays in Sepsis Treatment via Provider in Triage Model
However, more research is needed to identify which key elements of this process can be reliably replicated using cost-effective resources to balance liabilities and risks.
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New Diagnostic Tools Expected to Revamp Sepsis Care
An expert panel agreed a test is needed to indicate the severity of dysregulated host immune response. Although there was some uncertainty over which patients would benefit most from such a test, the panel agreed the sepsis test should be conducted at triage and produce results in less than 30 minutes.
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Sophisticated Technology Gives Clinicians Head Start on Diagnosing, Treating Sepsis
At Tampa General Hospital, staff have shortened the average length of stay for patients with sepsis and lowered mortality rates. When early recognition and treatment is the goal, the ED plays a critical role in ensuring patients with sepsis are set up for success.