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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is offering providers new tools to encourage safer use of electronic health records (EHRs).
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One emergency physician (EP) found himself in the position of giving orders for an emergency department (ED) patient in cardiac arrest by phone, while nurses remained in the ED to run the code, while responding to and running another code on the floor of the hospital.
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Discharge instructions frequently play an important role as evidence in medical malpractice cases, says John J. Barton, JD, a partner in the Providence, RI, office of Barton Gilman.
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Stephanie C. Sher, Esq., an attorney with Stevens & Lee in Lancaster, PA, says that outside evaluations of an emergency department (ED)s processes can identify risk-prone practices that could result in bad outcomes and malpractice claims.
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Electronic medical records (EMRs) have quickly become the standard in most U.S. emergency departments.
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News: An elderly woman with end-stage Alzheimers disease was admitted to the hospital for pneumonia. On the third day of her stay, she was given an enema containing scalding hot water, which caused first- and second-degree burns. The burns were not discovered until nine hours after the incident, and 20 hours had passed before she was given any pain medication.