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Just saying "no" to the flu shot isn't so simple anymore. Thanks to new state mandates and employer requirements, workers who don't want the vaccine are increasingly asked to acknowledge the risks for patients, themselves, and their family members.
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Sending text messages to cell phones is an effective intervention to help employees quit smoking, according to a study of research on this topic.1
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Abdominal pain comprises 5-10% of all emergency department (ED) visits each year.
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Patient handoffs, or turning over a patient's care to another physician, are high-risk encounters in emergency medicine due to the potential for breakdowns in communication.
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The ED physician has three obligations to the sexual assault patient, any one of which can potentially lead to liability, according to Howard A. Peth Jr., MD, JD, an attending physician in the department of emergency medicine at Lake Regional Hospital in Osage Beach, MO.
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More than half of nurses surveyed in a San Francisco hospital said they would not report for work if a influenza pandemic hit, and nearly half said they wouldn't report following a denotation of a radioactive bomb or during a smallpox attack.
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A small but growing number of EDs are implementing self-service computer kiosks to streamline the triage process. Potential benefits may include improved patient flow and satisfaction, but what are the liability risks of this practice?