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When patients are admitted to or discharged from St. Johns Hospital in Springfield, IL, in many cases the process is completed by a team of nurses with the sole responsibility of admitting and discharging patients, freeing up the floor nurses to provide care for patients.
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Pulmonary embolism (PE) is not an uncommon disease, and is easily misdiagnosed, resulting in litigation against emergency department (ED) physicians. This article will use legal cases to illustrate medical caveats regarding PE.
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After a 50-year-old man told an emergency physician (EP) that he thought his upper back pain was a result of using a pull crank to start his mower, the EP did a brief musculo-skeletal history and physical exam focused on the patients back pain, and discharged him with anti-inflammatory medication.
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In the course of medical malpractice litigation, the plaintiff attorney claimed the emergency physician (EP) didnt see a patient with respiratory failure until 15 minutes after arrival. This was what the electronic medical records (EMR) time stamp showed, but it wasnt the case.
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When a 37-year-old pregnant woman presented to an ED with right upper quadrant pain, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea, communication between the emergency physician (EP) and the patients obstetrician became a key issue in the ensuing malpractice litigation.
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At Duke Raleigh Hospital, case managers in the emergency department lead interdisciplinary behavioral health rounds each day on all patients with psychiatric signs and symptoms.
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Faced with the closing of the state psychiatric hospital in their community, hospitals, law enforcement, mental health providers, and community agencies in Raleigh, NC, began collaborating on improving care and transitions for the mentally ill.
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Part of my job is to review technology: hardware, software, web applications, cell phone apps, and the like. What a sweet job, right?
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There are several disparate areas in which following a vendor or consultant's recommendations could lead to liability for a provider or facility, warns Henry C. Fader, JD, an attorney at Pepper Hamilton in Philadelphia.