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Case management follows a process, not unlike the clinical nursing process or social work process. By following a process, case managers can function more effectively and efficiently.
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Delays for treatment for heart attack patients will continue to be a high-risk area for EDs legally, predicts Robert L. Norton, MD, a professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland.
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In the emergency department (ED), a central component of a physician's daily care and job performance is to administer or prescribe drugs.
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Ken Zafren, MD, FAAEM, FACEP, FAWM, EMS medical director for the state of Alaska and clinical associate professor in the Division of Emergency Medicine at Stanford (CA) University Medical Center, says that while much attention has been paid to the problem of plaintiff experts making false statements about ED care, he's also experienced defense experts making false statements.
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At what point after a lawsuit alleging ED malpractice is filed will a sued EP learn what the opposing experts say about the case? This depends on the legal strategy being used by the plaintiff's attorneys and state laws, says Jonnathan Busko, MD, an EP at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor and medical director of Maine EMS Region IV.
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A study published in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology suggests that getting a legal abortion is much safer than actually giving birth. Researchers found that women were about 14 times more likely to die during or after giving birth to a live baby than to die from complications of an abortion.
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According to a new study, kidney failure patients who take part in an education program are more likely to get evaluated for a kidney transplant.