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Hospital and ED administrators have found that initiating patient contact shortly after discharge from the ED can positively impact patient satisfaction while also offering opportunities to improve patient compliance with care instructions and to intervene early if complications arise. While some hospitals still rely on manual calls to patients, others are initiating contact through email and text messages.
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Diabetic patients who lack access to primary care tend to frequent the ED, often with complications from their disease that could have been prevented with proper management and education.
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Failure to obtain specialist consultation is one of the main recurring themes Ken Zafren, MD, FAAEM, FACEP, has seen over the years in reviewing medical malpractice claims against emergency physicians (EPs) as an expert witness.
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Patients with high spiritual support were more likely to receive aggressive end-of-life medical treatment, according to a recent study.
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Cost as an ethical concern in health care was addressed in the 2013 Hastings Center Guidelines for Decisions on Life-Sustaining Treatment and Care Near the End of Life.
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Ethical concerns involving clinical photography using smartphones include patient privacy, unscrupulous use, informed consent, and security.
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Microbiome research poses many of the same ethical concerns as genetic testing, and also some unique ethical considerations.
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To demonstrate the effectiveness of clinical ethics consultations, organizations need to show that the outcome was better than it would have been without the ethics consultation, but these data are often lacking.
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