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The same arrangements that have worked well for allowing videotaping in the ED might have to be significantly modified in light of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently updated its case definition of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) so that it is different from what EDs used in the last influenza season.
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Rapid influenza tests could help you differentiate between the common flu and a case of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), but their usefulness is limited.
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Part I of this two-part series covered gastrointestinal causes of chest pain and aortic dissection. This second and final part of the series will focus on pulmonary, psychiatric, and musculoskeletal causes of chest pain.
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If there are any doubts that improving patient flow also enhances patient safety, the recent experience of the ED at Enumclaw (WA) Regional Hospital should dispel them.
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A study conducted in the ED at St. John Hospital and Medical Center in Grosse Pointe, MI, has found that ED staff placed unnecessary urinary catheters (UCs) in nearly half of women 80 or older. The study was published in the November 2010 issue of the American Journal of Infection Control.
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When the situation warrants it, The Joint Commission will re-visit a topic that it previously has covered in a Sentinel Event Alert to look at it from a different point of view.
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The debate has been simmering for a while, but it came to a boil recently when the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) threw down the gauntlet with its recent position paper,
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Something had to give. After several years of stagnation or even decline in compensation for ED managers, salaries have begun to improve, according to the 2010 ED Management Salary Survey.
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A true test of the success of a process improvement initiative is whether the results can be sustained, and the ED at Hudson Valley Hospital Center in Cortlandt Manor, NY, has just celebrated the fifth anniversary of its "no wait" process. Most patients skip the waiting room entirely and go right to registration, and then to triage.