Business of Medicine
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Intermittent positive-pressure ventilation similar to continuous positive airway pressure in preventing lung injury in preemies
Major finding: Of the 497 infants assigned to nasal IPPV, 38.4% reached the primary outcome of death before 36 weeks of postmenstrual age or...
Practice Economics
Public Citizen: Malpractice payouts hit record lows
Commentary
The Most We Can Do
In the minds of many people, emergency medicine tends to focus more on identifying and treating the immediate clinical needs of patients, rather...
News
Injuries/poisonings the leading cause of pediatric ED visits
Commentary
The Evolution of Emergency Medicine: Value Added
Almost everything changes over time, so no one should be surprised to find that, in the 35 years since emergency medicine became a specialty, its...
News
Storify: After Boston Marathon blasts, doctors rush to help
Commentary
“My Patient”— More Than Ever
In teaching hospitals, “off-hour” errors by young doctors are sometimes considered a necessary price of training future physicians. This should...
Commentary
"My Patient"— More Than Ever
In teaching hospitals, "off-hour" errors by young doctors are sometimes considered a necessary price of training future physicians. This should...
News
One-year outcomes support emergency department CCTA
Major finding: Patients negative for coronary disease by CT angiography had a 0.2% rate of cardiac death or myocardial infarction at 1-year follow...
Commentary
A Wintry Mix of Patients
Throughout The United States this past Winter, admitted patients and their families waited hours to days in emergency departments for in-patient...
News
Massachusetts ED docs reporting impaired drivers to the state
Major Finding: Over a 16-month period, 31% of drivers were impaired because of a medical condition or substance abuse.Data Source: Retrospective...