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It's enough of a challenge when an ED is alerted by its local EMS that victims of chemical contamination are on their way by ambulance. But when these patients arrive by car unannounced that brings your response to an entirely different level.
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Moving admitted patients out of the ED and into inpatient beds reduces overcrowding more than adding beds to the department does, and -- in one hospital at least -- brings in more profits, according to two studies published online in advance of the October 2008 issue of Annals of Emergency Medicine.
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For the past two years, the ED at Avera Weskota Medical Center, a small, rural critical-access hospital in Wessington Springs, SD, has been using a new "Emergency Services Aftercare" instruction form to help patients remember vital information about the care they received and instructions to follow once they get home.
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(Editor's note: This is the second in a three-part series on innovative approaches to documentation that can significantly enhance your department's revenues, without making any changes in patient flow and throughput processes. This article discusses how the use of incentives can improve documentation and increase revenues. The final installment will discuss excellence in coding and billing practices.)
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Because practice-based research networks (PBRNs) conduct research across a web of physicians' offices, making sure the necessary staff are trained in human subjects protection can be a daunting task.
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A Veterans Health Administration hospital in Arkansas is currently being monitored by the VA after an investigation found human subjects protection violations on a number of protocols.
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Across the country, Native American communities have begun setting up their own research processes in some cases, their own separate IRBs to review research proposals involving these unique populations.
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Subject recruitment is one of the more ethically troubling issues raised by the recent case in which a judge ordered that a teenager receive an investigational drug from PTC Therapeutics of South Plainfield, NJ.
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