HFSA 2013: HF Early Alert System Cuts 30-Day Readmissions
The Particulars: Data indicate that 30-day readmission rates for patients with heart failure (HF)...
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Emergency Medicine
Taking Aim at Physician Impairment
When a critical event occurs in professions other than medicine, detailed investigations are...
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Career Plans Among Internal Medicine Residents
General internists are expected to play a pivotal role in providing healthcare as the population...
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Reducing Readmissions in Community-Acquired Pneumonia
In the United States, community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is the leading cause of morbidity and...
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Enhancing Patient Satisfaction After ED Visits
Efforts to improve the care experience for ED patients have the potential for wide-ranging...
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Using Restraints to Manage Agitated Patients
Most emergency physicians think of agitation as relatively simple to treat, with sedation being...
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Caring for Chronic Conditions in Primary Care
With the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act now underway, more attention is being focused...
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Patient Safety & Pain Management
According to current estimates, more than 76 million people in the United States suffer from...
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How ED Crowding Affects Outcomes
Previous studies have sought to establish a definitive relationship between ED crowding and...
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A Look at Recidivism in COPD Management
COPD is a group of progressively debilitating respiratory conditions, including emphysema and...
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The Impact of Hospitalist Workload on Patient Care
The workload for hospitalists has increased significantly, thanks in part to increased residency...
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Enhancing Access to tPA for Stroke
Studies have shown that using tPA within 3 hours of stroke onset raises the chances for good...
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Taking a Closer Look at Attending Rounds
Attending rounds has been a long-standing practice for internal medicine physicians, residents,...
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UA/NSTEMI: A Guideline Update
Following the recent FDA approval of new medications to reduce cardiovascular death and heart...
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The Impact of Poor Health Literacy in Patients with COPD
Health literacy has been defined as the ability to obtain, process, and understand the basic...
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Predicting Avoidable 30-Day Readmissions
Throughout the United States, readmission rates are increasingly being used for benchmarking...
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Managing Children With Low-Risk Blunt Abdominal Trauma
Intra-abdominal injuries resulting from blunt torso trauma are a leading cause of morbidity in...
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Selected Imaging Tests in the ED
The figure below shows the annual percentage of ED visits with selected imaging tests ordered or...
Read MoreThe ED’s Expanding Role in Hospital Admissions
Although research has focused heavily on increased use of EDs, little attention has been paid to the changing role that these facilities play in the entire healthcare system. In a study published in the New England Journal of...
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