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700+ Rural Hospitals At Risk Of Closing
From Axios: Threat level: A new report from the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform estimated 703 hospitals — or more than...
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Aug 6, 20241 min read
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Data reveal how doctors take women’s pain less seriously than men’s
From Nature: Physicians treat men and women differently when it comes to pain — women in hospital wait longer to be seen and are less...
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Aug 6, 20241 min read
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EMS training on key skills improves heart attack survival
Press Release (emphasis added): Emergency medical services (EMS) agencies that adopt four or more critical best practices have higher...
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Aug 5, 20243 min read
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Trends and Patterns in Emergency Department Visits: A Comprehensive Analysis of Adult Data From the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) Database
From Cureus: Background Emergency department (ED) visits among adults have increased in recent years, with the United States reporting...
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Aug 3, 20242 min read
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Healthcare Groups Want Congress to Make Assaulting a Health Worker a Federal Crime
From MedPage Today: All About the SAVE Act Boucot was one of several speakers calling on Congress to pass the Safety From Violence for...
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Aug 3, 20241 min read
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Patient perceptions of behavioral flags in the emergency department: A qualitative analysis
From Academic Emergency Medicine: Background To combat increasing levels of violence in the emergency department (ED), hospitals have...
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Aug 3, 20241 min read
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Why Does No One Care about the Crisis in Rural Emergency Medicine?
From Emergency Medicine News: “If you look at the middle of the country, straight down from the Canadian border to the north of Texas,...
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Aug 2, 20241 min read
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Iowa HHS announces new behavioral health districts
From Iowa Public Radio: The law signed by Gov. Kim Reynolds in May requires the state to merge Iowa’s 13 Mental Health and Disability...
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Aug 2, 20241 min read
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Suicide Assessment in the Emergency Department
From the Suicide Prevention Resource Center: The authors of a review of the research on assessing adult suicide risk in emergency...
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Jul 30, 20242 min read
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Fact sheet by Coalition to Strengthen America’s Healthcare shows nearly half of emergency department visits happen after hours
From the AHA: A fact sheet released July 29 by the Coalition to Strengthen America’s Healthcare features analysis from KNG Health...
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Jul 30, 20241 min read
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Maternity Care in Rural Areas Is in Crisis. Can More Doulas Help?
From KFF Health News: Doulas are not medical professionals. They are trained to offer education about the pregnancy and postpartum...
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Jul 29, 20241 min read
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Rural hospitals eye reimbursement boost post-Chevron
From Modern Healthcare (hat tip: Ed Gaines): Rural hospital CEOs are hoping last month’s Supreme Court ruling that ended decades of...
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Jul 29, 20241 min read
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10 best, worst states for healthcare in 2024
From Becker's: Minnesota is the best state for healthcare when it comes to affordability and quality and Mississippi is the worst,...
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Jul 29, 20241 min read
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Emergency departments likely overprescribing opioids for acute pain
From Physcians Weekly: In this cohort study, majority of the participants did not use all of the opioids prescribed to them in the...
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Jul 28, 20241 min read
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Is High-Sensitivity Troponin Actually Helping Us?
From Journal Feed: Spoon Feed This RCT of U.S. patients being evaluated for acute MI using a 0/1 hour hs-cTnI protocol, compared to...
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Jul 26, 20241 min read
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Teamwork can help save the lives of Iowa patients in cardiac arrest
From the AMA: As an emergency physician in an academic medical center, Peter Georgakakos, DO, can list many jobs on his email signature,...
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Jul 25, 20241 min read
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iPhones will soon be able to stream live video on 911 calls
From The Verge : First responder networks are lining up to support a major new emergency feature in iOS 18: Live Video support. Now, 911...
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Jul 24, 20241 min read
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Minnesota mental health patients stay 25 hours longer than necessary in ER because of shortages
From Medical XPress : When patients in mental health crises get stuck in Minnesota's emergency rooms, they stay 25 hours longer on...
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Jul 24, 20241 min read
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The problem of unconscious and unidentified patients in emergency department admissions; a 3-year retrospective study
From PLOS One : Unidentified patients present a medical information dilemma for all medical departments but can be a major problem in...
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Jul 24, 20241 min read
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Sepsis Alerts in Emergency Departments Linked to Lower Mortality
From MedPage Today: Sepsis alert systems used in emergency departments (EDs) were tied to better patient outcomes, including lower risk...
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Jul 23, 20241 min read
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