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Emergency Medicine
Emergency department guidelines enhance quality patient care
July 14th, 2007
Defining what constitutes quality care—especially in a large, urban hospital—isn’t easy. University of Cincinnati (UC) researchers, however, are addressing the nationwide problem with a unique system to reduce medical errors and improve patient care in local hospital emergency departments. Although guidelines for care on select disease conditions may be available in some emergency departments, the UC researchers believe they are the first to develop a comprehensive, evidence-based online system that covers numerous conditions from triage and diagnosis to treatment and discharge. “We’ve been developing a system for the last three...
Source: Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week (2007-07-14)
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