Non-Opioid Pain Medications to Consider for Emergency Department Patients
As recently as 15 years ago, the approach to pain management was a symptomatic one, whereby the…
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Non-Opioid Pain Medications to Consider for Emergency Department Patients
As recently as 15 years ago, the approach to pain management was a symptomatic one, whereby the... -
Opinion: Why Freestanding, Physician- or Investor-Owned Emergency Departments May Be Bad for Emergency Medicine
Driving in and around the cities that make up the Dallas–Fort Worth (DFW) metroplex, I get the... -
ACEP’s Qualified Clinical Data Registry Helps Physicians Meet PQRS Goals
A clinical data registry records information about the health status of patients and the health care they...
Opinion: Why Freestanding, Physician- or Investor-Owned Emergency Departments May Be Bad for Emergency Medicine
Driving in and around the cities that make up the Dallas–Fort Worth (DFW) metroplex, I get the…
ACEP’s Qualified Clinical Data Registry Helps Physicians Meet PQRS Goals
A clinical data registry records information about the health status of patients and the health care they…
Competency Measurement Approach for Advanced Practice Providers in Emergency Medicine
Lately, the topic of competency of advanced practice providers (APPs), also known as physician assistants (PAs) and…
Rural Hospital Closures Leave Whole Communities Without Access to Emergency Care
Imagine you are in Washington, D.C., and have a sudden onset of severe chest pain radiating to…
ACEP14 Can’t Miss Sessions for Emergency Physicians
MONDAY, OCTOBER 27 10–10:50 a.m. (MO-07) Pediatric Orthopedics: Avoid the Pitfalls Faculty: Annalise Sorrentino, MD, FAAP, FACEP…
Blood Culture Testing: Send Samples Selectively to Lower Costs, Medico-Legal Risk
Your last patient on a shift is a 55-year-old well-appearing woman with fever and cough in whom…
Physical Exam Critical to Rule Out Unnecessary Lab Tests
I am writing in response to the article “The Death of the Physical Exam” by Shari Welch,…
Opinion: Emergency Physicians Should Take Cautious Approach to Incentives that Boost Patient Satisfaction
Jay Kaplan MD, FACEP, recently argued in ACEP Now (April 2014) that emergency physicians should embrace patient…
Emergency Department Benchmarking Alliance Reports on Data Survey for Next-Generation ED Design
The design of emergency departments (EDs) is evolving with the changes in patients served, diagnostic testing utilized,…