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An intervention that provided housing and case management to homeless adults with chronic medical illnesses reduced hospitalizations and ED visits in two Chicago-area hospitals, according to a study recently published in The Journal of the American Medical Association.
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A growing number of EDs are using physician scribes to help with histories and physical exams, but Joe Danna, MD, FACEP, has been using scribes for much, much more, and he says it's made a world of difference when it comes to staff morale.
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What are the leading ED best practices in large health systems? According to one national survey, they include taking a business-like approach to the management of the department.
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How would you like to be told that the hospital that houses your ED the large, "mother" facility that receives your patients for admission and provides a host of ancillary services that makes the running of your department go more smoothly was going to shut down, and that you were going to have to transform into a satellite ED (SED)?
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To address patient flow EDs across the country are employing different variations around boarding inpatients in upstairs hallways.
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Acute pancreatitis was described by surgeon Berkely Moynihan in 1925 as " the most terrible of all calamities that occur in connection with the abdominal viscera." Although our understanding and management of this condition has progressed considerably since then, this description remains apt at least for the most advanced and complex cases of severe acute pancreatitis.
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Investigators at the University of Utah hospital carried out a comprehensive observational study of alarms that sounded in the medical ICU.
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The infection control technique of contact precautions is intended to prevent the spread of pathogens by airborne, droplet, or contact transmission.
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This study was carried out by the research group on quality improvement of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine.