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Streamlining your ED coding and billing system isnt something you can do alone. It takes the expertise and cooperation of numerous individuals working together on each element of the process. However, the rewards are great both in the areas of improving revenue and assuring conformance with the hospital compliance program.
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Bentley PN, Wilson AG, Derwin ME, et al. Reliability of assigning correct current procedural terminology-4 E/M codes. Ann Emerg Med 2002; 40:269-274.
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If you fail to implement effective systems to prevent pediatric medication errors, there can be liability risks for you and your facility.
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Now that the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has announced its 2003 National Patient Safety Goals, what are you doing to comply? Technology could be a crucial part of your strategy.
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What is your No. 1 obstacle to reducing delays and improving patient flow? For many ED managers, the culprit increasingly is inpatients being held in the ED for hours or even days.
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Question: Some of our physicians insist on sending their patients to our ED for injections to treat ongoing medical conditions. One patient was scheduled for magnetic resonance imagine (MRI), but due to back pain, he was unable to lie still for the test. The physician ordered a narcotic injection to be given to assist the patient in getting through the test. Even though the MRI was scheduled and the injection order was included with the MRI order, we in the ED refused to administer the medication without a medical screening examination (MSE). The physician was irate, and the patient left unhappy. Did we do the right thing?
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This article, the second of two parts, deals with the potentially disastrous situation in which either the patients airway presents a substantial challenge or standard intubation methods have failed.
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The controversial vaccination of health care workers for smallpox is here, with emergency department (ED) staff among the first to be inoculated. For the ED manager, your nightmares may include staff who are unable or unwilling to have the vaccine, staff who become ill after having the vaccine, and a situation worse than an unannounced accreditation survey: a smallpox outbreak.
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As an emergency department (ED) leader, you should do the following to improve your staffs ability to avoid conflicts with each other and patients and to manage those effectively if they occur, says Tracy Sanson, MD, FACEP, assistant medical director for the department of emergency medicine at Brandon (FL) Regional Medical Center.
