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ED-Based Response Center Helps with Children’s Mental Health Needs
Responding to an identified need in the community, Children’s of Alabama in Birmingham created a Psychiatric Intake Response Center (PIRC) to prioritize mental health care for youth. Mental healthcare professionals divide their time between assessing patients who present to the emergency department with mental health concerns and providing guidance to families who call the PIRC for help.
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COVERED Project Seeks to Protect ED Personnel from COVID-19
This is an issue loaded with nuance. Much depends on such factors as how someone works in the emergency department (ED), what procedures they perform, what specific practices they use when performing those procedures, and how often they are exposed. A multidimensional study that seeks to capture all these complexities is well underway, with the goal of delivering solid answers to nurses, physicians, and even many nonclinical personnel who staff EDs across the United States.
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For OUD Treatment, Leverage Existing Resources, Keep Referral Process Simple
Perhaps most importantly, make patients feel comfortable and safe when engaging in these delicate conversations.
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Is It Time for EDs to Play a Central Role in Opioid Use Disorder Treatment?
While frontline providers have their hands full with COVID-19, overdose deaths are surging across the country. Some experts argue now is the perfect time to implement needed reforms in care for patients with opioid use disorder. In particular, they say it is time to fully leverage emergency departments in the quest to initiate these patients on treatment and connect them with ongoing care.
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Research Reveals Real-World Challenges of Preventing Falls
It seems even individually tailored plans contain blind spots.
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SAMHSA Amends Key Regulation
Feds aim to improve care coordination for substance use disorders while maintaining patient confidentiality.
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Advocates: Long-Term Facilities Remain Hot Spots for COVID-19
Persistent personal protective equipment and testing shortages exacerbate problems.
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Hospital’s Quality Issues Can Cause Problems During ED Malpractice Litigation
If a hospital has below-average quality ratings, suboptimal satisfaction scores, or recent Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act violations, plaintiff attorneys will want the jury to know all about it. However, these are not necessarily going to be admissible in malpractice litigation.
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Same Issues Arise Repeatedly in ED Missed Sepsis Claims
When septic patients first arrive at emergency departments, they do not always appear to be that sick. Some are discharged home, and plaintiff attorneys later allege the patient was misdiagnosed.
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EDs Find Alternatives to Boarding Psychiatric Patients
A resource document from the American Psychiatric Association offers some solutions to the problem of boarding psychiatric patients.