Hospital Quality-Control Program Tied to Rise in Heart Failure Deaths
Financial penalties designed to encourage hospitals to avoid repeat hospitalizations are working, but they’re also associated with…
Quality & Safety
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Hospital Quality-Control Program Tied to Rise in Heart Failure Deaths
Financial penalties designed to encourage hospitals to avoid repeat hospitalizations are working, but they’re also associated with... -
Is Involuntary Hold for Psychiatric Patients the Only Answer?
Eleanor (not her real name) talked to me at length about her experience as a patient who... -
Novel Telemedicine Approaches Offer Direct-to-Patient Services, Peer-to-Peer Support for Providers
Telemedicine can be defined as “the remote delivery of health care services and clinical information using telecommunications...
Is Involuntary Hold for Psychiatric Patients the Only Answer?
Eleanor (not her real name) talked to me at length about her experience as a patient who…
Novel Telemedicine Approaches Offer Direct-to-Patient Services, Peer-to-Peer Support for Providers
Telemedicine can be defined as “the remote delivery of health care services and clinical information using telecommunications…
Patient Flow Improvements to Boost Efficiency in Small Emergency Departments
The emergency department at Houlton Regional Hospital (HRH) in Houlton, Maine, wanted to take its operational performance…
ACEP’s Clinical Emergency Data Registry to Lead Way for Emergency Medicine Quality
As part of its ongoing commitment to assist emergency physicians with providing the highest quality of emergency…
How Physicians Can Be Healthier Than Their Patients
Physician wellness is associated with career satisfaction.1 Compared to other specialties, emergency physicians suffer from high rates…
Diagnostic Testing in the ED Supports Development of New Metrics as Quality Indicators
Emergency departments have appropriately developed a role as the diagnostic and treatment center of excellence (and availability)…
Psychiatrists Issue Statement on Ketamine for Mood Disorders
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – With increasing off-label use of ketamine in patients with severe depression and…
Emergency Physician Training Important to Improving Transgender Care
(Reuters Health) – The negative experiences of transgender and gender nonconforming patients in U.S. emergency departments could…
Emergency Physicians Discuss Emergent Use of Pacemakers for Patients with Bradycardia
Nothing gets your heart racing like bradycardia. Wait, that sounds backwards. How about, “Nothing makes you as…