Case Report: Does This Patient Have Decisional Capacity?
Case A 21-year-old man presented to the emergency department (ED) with bizarre behavior. He was found by…
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Case Report: Does This Patient Have Decisional Capacity?
Case A 21-year-old man presented to the emergency department (ED) with bizarre behavior. He was found by... -
Emergency Physician Restrictive Covenants Explained
Forty years after its founding as a single-site democratic group, the physician-owned practice group of which I... -
ACEP Council Debates Scope of Practice, Access to Care, Safe Injection Sites, and More
More than 60 resolutions were put forth during the ACEP22 Council Meeting in San Francisco, with many...
Emergency Physician Restrictive Covenants Explained
Forty years after its founding as a single-site democratic group, the physician-owned practice group of which I…
ACEP Council Debates Scope of Practice, Access to Care, Safe Injection Sites, and More
More than 60 resolutions were put forth during the ACEP22 Council Meeting in San Francisco, with many…
ACEP Submits Amicus Briefs Regarding Post-Roe State Laws
ACEP is working with a coalition of leading national medical societies to address legal barriers that hinder…
ACEP Responds to AHRQ Report on Diagnostic Errors in the ED
In mid-December 2022, ACEP and eight other emergency medicine organizations issued a letter expressing their deep concern…
The AHRQ Diagnostic Errors Study: A Peer Reviewer’s Reaction
In December 2022, Newman-Toker et al., published a systematic review on emergency department (ED) diagnostic errors with funding…
Report on ED Diagnostic Errors Sparks Controversy
When the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) released its systematic review of diagnostic errors in…
Forensic Photography Tips
A 22-year-old male is brought to the emergency department (ED) with a gunshot wound to the thigh….
Practical Considerations When Sharing Clinical Images for Treatment Purposes
Case A 69-year-old man presents from the assisted living facility with hip pain following a fall. He…
The Impact of Artificial Intelligence in the Emergency Department
In 2012, the retail store Target inadvertently informed a father that his young daughter was pregnant.1 The…