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Whether you are interviewing emergency medicine physicians, midlevel providers, or technicians in your ED, certain questions or remarks can get you into legal trouble. What should you avoid saying during the hiring process?
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Caring for patients with little privacy other than thin curtains in a crowded emergency department seems to fly in the face of the requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). But what are the actual liability risks of this practice?
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The ED at Martha's Vineyard Hospital in Oak Bluffs, MA, has consistently achieved extraordinarily high customer satisfaction ratings while operating in a unique environment.
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When you're planning a geriatric ED or looking to transform part of your department into a geriatric wing, there are several design and staffing considerations the ED manager must take into account, advises Robert Fitzgerald, MD, FACEP, an attending physician in the ED at Boswell Hospital in Sun City, AZ.
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The number of patients between the ages of 65 and 74 who visit the nation's EDs annually is likely to double from 6.4 million in 2003 to 11.7 million by 2013, according to a new study published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine.1 This growth, the authors warn, could lead to catastrophic overcrowding.
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The increased use of computed tomography (CT) scans, while revolutionizing diagnostic radiology, also has brought with it a greater risk of radiation and potential cancer cases, according to a recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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The ED at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines, IA, has played a central role in the dramatic improvement in hospitalwide compliance with The Joint Commission core measures for community acquired pneumonia (CAP).
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The new ED at Adventist GlenOaks Hospital in Glendale Heights, IL, is a bit untraditional: It has no waiting room.
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In the course of less than a year, the ED at Potomac Hospital in Woodbridge, VA, has reduced its rate of patients who leave without treatment (LWT) from the 8%-9% range to just under 1.5% without adding any new staff or hours.
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On Wednesday evening, Oct. 24, 2007, a man drove his pickup truck into the exterior wall of the ED at the Medical Center of Central Georgia in Macon.