Emergency Medicine - Adult and Pediatric
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Follow-up Text or Email Might Prevent Malpractice Suit
One hospital has reduced its malpractice risks with this simple practice.
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Is ED Patient Unhappy With ED Care?
Or is an unexpected bill the real problem?
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Give Unhappy Patients Chance to Air Concerns
This could help the hospital avoid a lawsuit.
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Don’t View Patient Complaints as Annoyances
Unsolicited complaints are ‘nuggets of gold’ and valuable risk reduction tools for EDs.
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No Margin, No Mission
Whether based on strong evidence or not, it is believed that experience of care drives market share and that market drives the bottom line.
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A Review of the Limping Child and Painful Hip
MONOGRAPH: A focus on on the minor musculoskeletal trauma and atraumatic causes of limp and hip pain in the pediatric population.
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Acute Knee Pain
MONOGRAPH: The physical exam of the knee in the ED and selected nontraumatic conditions causing knee pain.
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Discussing Firearms with Emergency Department Patients: Why, Who, Where, When, and What
This article explores questions around physician firearm safety counseling — including why emergency physicians might do it, who might benefit, where and when to consider it, and what such counseling should include (along with what resources exist for emergency physicians and for patients).
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Foreign Bodies of the Head and Neck
MONOGRAPH: Diagnosing and managing ear, nose, and throat foreign bodies with discussion separated by location.
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How Defense Lawyers Bring Up ED Patient’s Own Negligence
Asserting contributory or comparative negligence can be an effective strategy for an EP to reduce or eliminate his or her responsibility for any harm the patient alleges to have sustained.