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Saying the risk of infection outweighs the risk of fire, a national fire marshals association has come out in support of the use of alcohol hand rubs in the health care facilities.
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In pediatrics, pharmaceuticals, and parenting, it has long been known that children are not just miniature adults. In the field of rehabilitation, that knowledge has been a little slower coming into practice.
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Delay in treatment remains the most common cause of sentinel events in EDs, accounting for more than half of all sentinel events originating in EDs since the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations began tracking the events in 1995.
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Your ED is geared toward delivering acute care to sick or injured patients, but hospitals that aspire to earning disease-specific care (DSC) certification are requiring their EDs to take a fresh look at how they treat patients with chronic illnesses.
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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced an interim final rule to identify and compensate ED staff and others injured as a result of receiving a smallpox vaccine.
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More than a year after implementation of the Medicare outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS), there are unexpected variances in the assignment of evaluation and management (E&M) codes on claims from EDs, suggesting many are undercoded or overcoded and may risk compliance charges.
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To explain how EDs often leave themselves open for liability when treating headaches, Diane M. Sixsmith, MD, MPH, FACEP, chairman of emergency medicine at New York Hospital Medical Center of Queens in Flushing, tells a story, based on a real incident, in which everything went wrong.
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One part of the special cardiac care program that helped Florida Hospital in Orlando receive accreditation as a chest pain center is the Code STEMI program. Code STEMI stands for segment elevation myocardial infarction and results in the patient being transported quickly from the ED to the catheterization lab.
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Correct control chart selection is a critical part of creating a control chart, according to PQ Systems, an industry leader in the manufacturing of statistical process control (SPC) and quality control software based in Miamisburg, OH.
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A physician champion made all the difference when Methodist Medical Center (MMC) in Oak Ridge, TN, started its CareTrax clinical pathway system in 1993, says Coletta Manning, RN, MHA, CPHQ.
