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Malpractice litigation often arises from a psychiatric patient discharged from the ED against medical advice (AMA), according to Robert Berg, JD, an attorney at Epstein Becker Green in Atlanta, GA.
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In Georgia, statutory protections for emergency physicians (EPs) have survived two constitutional challenges.
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Can patients truthfully claim that ED staff ignored their complaints and communicated poorly with one another?
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New data suggest there is a huge opportunity for EDs to identify patients with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) and link them into care before downstream complications lead to higher medical costs and adverse outcomes.
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With deaths from opioid medication-related overdoses reaching epidemic proportions, researchers at two academic medical centers in Boston have identified key characteristics or red-flags that patients may be exhibiting drug-seeking behavior.
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To gather insight on an array strategies used to curb ED utilization, investigators conducted a systematic review of five types of interventions.
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Traumatic injury remains one of the most important and persistent causes for morbidity and mortality in the United States. The establishment of a trauma team that is available to evaluate and manage trauma quickly and efficiently during the very critical first minutes after the injured patient arrives at the hospital has significantly improved survival and dramatically reduced sequelae from these injuries. An important component of this expedited evaluation has been the recognition of the utility of ultrasound to augment the imaging and triage of the injured patient. In this well-researched monograph, the authors describe this rapidly growing modality and its many applications. All members of the trauma team should be familiar with the indications and limitations of this important trauma tool.
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As the country moves toward full implementation of the Affordable Care Act, one issue that many safety-net hospitals are grappling with for the first time is market competition. While it is still not clear how many states are going to go along with the reform laws expansion of Medicaid, the thinking is that in areas where newly insured patients have options for where to receive care, safety-net facilities are going to have to compete with other facilities to be the hospitals of choice.
