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As of Jan. 1, 2022, accredited facilities must educate, train, monitor, and assess more often.
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Anxiety disorders are the most prevalent mental health problem worldwide. As practicing emergency physicians know, anxiety is common in emergency department patients.
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How would one interpret the ECG in the figure, obtained in the ED from a middle-aged man with new chest pain?
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The FDA has approved a new, but controversial, treatment for Alzheimer’s disease.
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By shortening the duration of antibiotic therapy, a procalcitonin-guided protocol decreased the rate of infection-associated adverse effects, decreased costs, and reduced mortality in patients with sepsis.
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Children with asthma showed improved small airway mechanics following indoor filtration of particulates (2.5 µm and greater) using high-efficiency particulate air filtration devices.
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The WHO Solidarity Trial Consortium found remdesivir, hydroxychloroquine, lopinavir, and interferon regimens produced “little or no effect” on relevant outcomes.
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This case illustrates the standard of causation used in wrongful death and other actions alleging a patient’s injuries were caused by a doctor’s or hospital’s negligence. In this case, the expert essentially testified to several actions by the hospital and attending physician that increased the risk of injury to the patient, but did not specifically conclude any one or more of those allegedly negligent actions actually caused the patient’s death.
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This case shows the importance of jury instructions in medical negligence cases and defines how a court properly places the issues before the jury after evidence has been presented.
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The results of an analysis of closed nursing claims indicate costs have recently risen, and the increase is worse in some specialties. The average total incurred for each professional liability claim involving nurses has increased from similar analyses in 2011 and 2015. Costs increased to more than $210,000 per claim, a 4% increase since 2015.
