Emergency Department Management & Law
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Use algorithm to avoid EMTALA violations
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Site offers tools for busy clinicians
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Salary Survey: Are you offering the right benefits in your ED? If not, employees may go to a facility that is
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Trauma Reports Supplement
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Trauma Reports Supplement
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Trauma Reports
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Trauma Reports Supplement
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Trauma Reports Supplement
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EMR Charting "Creates New Areas of Liability" for EPs
Time-stamped electronic medical record (EMR) entries became the primary focus during a meeting with a patients family and their attorneys at Carilion Clinic in Roanoke, VA, in which concerns were being addressed about a patients adverse outcome after a procedure performed in the emergency department (ED). -
Failure to Diagnose Stroke Claims Have These Fact Patterns
Failure to diagnose ischemic stroke is a common allegation in claims against emergency physicians (EPs) even in emergency departments (EDs) at Primary Stroke Centers, according to Gary Mims, JD, a partner at Sickels, Frei and Mims in Fairfax, VA.