Carolyn Buppert, NP, JD Posted: 12/01/2011 Editor’s Note: Healthcare is serious business, and the repercussions of deficiencies in medical documentation can be considerable. Nurse attorney Carolyn Buppert examines the landscape of medical record auditing — for a variety of purposes — and offers practical suggestions to improve your documentation in this 3-part series. Part 1 [...]
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Jul 14 – Epinephrine is a standard component of resuscitation for cardiac arrest, but in a controversial study from Australia it did little to increase patients’ survival. Researchers did find, however, that patients who received epinephrine were more likely to have pre-hospital return of spontaneous circulation, a result the researchers say [...]
Emergency departments are struggling to keep up with demand, serving a growing number of people at the same time that their numbers are shrinking. One increasingly popular option to improve access to services is the freestanding emergency department, a facility that, as its name suggests, isn’t physically located with a hospital. Services at these facilities [...]
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