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Graat and colleagues at the University of Amsterdam in The Netherlands conducted this prospective study to determine the impact of discontinuing daily chest radiographs in the ICU.
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This study was carried out in a 13-bed closed medical ICU, in a county teaching hospital in which 9 board-certified intensivists rotate at 14-day intervals in covering the ICU. Only patients cared for by a single intensivist were included in this analysis.
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If you are an emergency department physician and you are sued, your liability exposure depends on your status with the facility.
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If your patient has a sexually transmitted disease (STD) and you are fearful of him or her infecting others, you may be tempted to inform the patient's spouse or significant other.
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For emergency department (ED) personnel, the most troublesome patients often are those who don't want treatment at all.
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In this last part of the three-part series examining recent cases concerning expert witness testimony, we will look at the effect of state tort reform measures in addressing the expert witness problem.
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This article emphasizes the means to uncover the most common and important infectious diseases affecting children who present to the emergency department having recently traveled to the developing world.
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The amount of funds allocated for emergency preparedness in President Bush's newly presented fiscal year 2007 budget may look good on paper, but as a practical matter, they won't be much help to individual hospitals, says one expert.
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This past summer, when strong storms knocked out power in the St. Louis area, the incident command group at BJC Healthcare called the local emergency management agency (EMA) to tell them they had lost power at several of their 13 hospitals and were operating on emergency generators.