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Value-based care news abounds at ACEP18
Be sure to check out the sessions on value-based care listed below.
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Meeting preview: Mental health ED visits spiked between 2009 and 2015
ED length of stay for patients requiring inpatient care are also increasing.
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ACEP18: Toxicology updates & emerging trends
ACEP 2018 will feature a plethora of toxicology presentations and workshops, such as "Emergency Toxicology: Emerging Trends – Cases in Poisoning...
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Zika virus infection: Novel assay extends diagnostic window
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Restrictions on EMT glucagon administration should be lifted
“Increasing the availability of glucagon in the prehospital setting will likely result in reduced cost burden and adverse consequences of severe...
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Childhood obesity linked to severe dental infections
Diet is only one factor.
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Four syndromes suggest life-threatening PVL-positive S. aureus infection
MALMO, SWEDEN – Suggested empiric treatment is vancomycin, clindamycin, plus IVIG.
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ED key to reducing pediatric asthma x-rays
ATLANTA – It takes more than a guideline to change behavior.
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Timely culture reports lower LOS for neonatal fever
ATLANTA – Hospital’s procedural changes resulted in no increase in sepsis readmissions.
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Short-course IV antibiotics okay for newborn bacteremic UTI
ATLANTA – There were few recurrences, no meningitis.
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European experts envy U.S. pediatric flu vaccination approach
MALMO, SWEDEN – Yet ACIP’s waffling on FluMist vaccine caused concern abroad.