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As new information technologies continue to make person-to-person communications easier and more varied, they also are transforming the way that health care can be provided.
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The ED physician and trauma surgeon must have evidence-based
information on indications for emergency department thoracotomy that
can be determined rapidly, easily accessible equipment, and the ability
to recognize situations in which EDT clearly is not in the patients
best interest.
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Left ventricular (LV) aneurysm is defined as a localized area of infarcted myocardium that bulges outward during the entire cardiac cycle. Among ED patients with ST segment elevation, LV aneurysm is an uncommon cause of the ST segment abnormality, accounting for only 3-4% of all patients with STE.
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Callanan analyzed three methods of temperature measurement among babies in an ED population to ascertain performance criteria for means of fever determination.
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The authors studied the benefits and risks of adding clopidogrel to different doses of aspirin in the treatment of patients with acute coronary syndrome.
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The authors of this randomized, controlled study sought to determine whether incorporation of a D-dimer testing strategy in patients with suspected deep-vein thrombosis would reduce the need for ultrasound imaging without compromising patient safety.
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Medical injuries during hospitalization resulted in longer hospital stays, higher costs, and a higher number of deaths in 2000, according to a study from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) in Rockville, MD. The study, Excess Length of Stay, Charges, and Mortality Attributable to Medical Injuries During Hospitalization, was published in the Oct. 8, 2003, Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Vast strides are being made in data collection methodology, and access to the same resources will help increase the commonality among benchmarking facilities. Nevertheless, benchmarking professionals argue, the practice of benchmarking is as much art as it is science, and interpreting data is as important as collecting them.
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The proportion of hospitals offering complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) services increased by 0.8 percentage points in 2002, according to the 2003-2004 edition of the AHA Guide. About 16.5% of the 4,756 hospitals that answered the services questionnaire in the 2002 AHA Annual Survey of Hospitals said they provide CAM, up from 15.7% of 4,773 respondents in 2001.