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The purpose for this study, carried out at nine Canadian tertiary care hospitals, was to prospectively compare the NEXUS low-risk criteria to the Canadian c-spine rules for accuracy, reliability, clinical acceptability, and potential outcomes in patient care and radiography utilization.
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Creating the most efficient staffing arrangement possible along with fostering effective working relationships with those outside the access department was integral to the development of a financially successful patient access department, says Patti Daniel, MS, CCM, LPC, LMSW/AP.
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A dramatic overhaul of the emergency department (ED) process at Paradise Valley Hospital in National City, CA, began with a single question from the director of emergency medicine.
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The decision of the U.S. Supreme Court last fall to let stand an appeals court ruling that the federal government may not investigate, threaten, or punish doctors who recommend marijuana as a medical treatment for their patients has lifted a cloud that was over the heads of many people, says Bruce Mirken, communications director for the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) in Washington, DC.
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Malpractice insurance premiums in states that cap awards are 17.1% lower than in states that dont, according to a study by Kenneth Thorpe, health policy professor at Emory University in Atlanta.
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A community health care program that started in Memphis, TN, 16 years ago to serve the working poor has become a model for efforts
in many other places around the country. Some 15 clones of the Church Health Center have started in several states, and the center now holds monthly workshops to teach representatives from other communities how to replicate the program.
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Recommendations made by President George Bush during his recent State of the Union address didnt exactly follow those from two recent studies, including one released by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) on the uninsured.
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Two years after needle safety became a mandate nationwide, hospitals face what may be their greatest challenge: keeping the momentum going.
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A case of being in the right place at the right time or perhaps, more accurately, the wrong place at the right time led to an on-site visit by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) at the Grove Park Inn Resort Spa in Asheville, NC, and a plan to mitigate a health hazard that had been causing employees to complain of conditions including pneumonia, head-aches, sore throats, and burning and watery eyes.
