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Transfer of DNR orders to the ED from extended care facilities.

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE: With an elderly and chronically ill patient population visiting the emergency department, it is important to know patients' wishes regarding care preferences and advanced directives. Ohio law states DNR orders must be transported…

Tags: *Advance Directives, *Critical Illness, *Health Services for the Aged, *Skilled Nursing Facilities, 2017, 80 and over, Advance Directives, Aged, Amireh Ahmad, Chaudhary Ali, Coding – Administration, Coding – Standards, Critical Illness, Do-not-resuscitate, Emergency Medical Services – Administration, Emergency Medical Services/*organization & administration, Emergency Service, EMS, Extended care facilities, Female, Forms and Records Control/*organization & administration/standards, Frey Jennifer A, Health Services for the Aged, Hospital, Human, Humans, Length of Stay, Male, McQuown Colleen M, Medical Records – Statistics and Numerical Data, Medical Records/*statistics & numerical data, Middle Age, Middle Aged, Ohio, Outcome Assessment, Outcome Assessment (Health Care), Patient Advocacy, Physicians, Prospective Studies, Resuscitation Orders, Skilled Nursing Facilities, The American journal of emergency medicine

Ethical principles contained in currently professed medical oaths.

This study analyzed the pledges received from all U.S. medical schools accredited in 1989 by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education of both the Association of American Medical Colleges and the American Medical Association to determine what…

Tags: *Codes of Ethics, *Ethics, *Hippocratic Oath, 1991, Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, Beneficence, Bioethics and Professional Ethics, Confidentiality, Dickstein E, Empirical Approach, Erlen J, Erlen J A, Humans, Medical, Patient Advocacy, Personal Autonomy, Physician-Patient Relations, Social Justice, United States

Necrotizing Fasciitis: An Emergency Medicine Simulation Scenario.

Necrotizing fasciitis (NF) is a rare and rapidly progressing life-threatening infectious process. By progressing through a simulation involving a patient with NF and participating in a post-scenario debriefing, learners will gain the necessary skills…

Tags: 2016, Ahmed Rami, Cureus, Emergency Medicine, Espinal Alexis M, Galust Henrik, Giorgio Daniel J, Interdisciplinary Communication, Necrotizing fasciitis, Oliverio Matthew H, Patient Advocacy, simulation, simulation scenario

Integrating evidence-based practices and the recovery model.

Consumer advocacy has emerged as an important factor in mental health policy during the past few decades. Winning consumer support for evidence-based practices requires recognition that consumers' desires and needs for various types of treatments and…

Tags: 2001, Evidence-Based, Frese FJ III, Kress K, Mental Disorders – Rehabilitation, Mental Health Organizations, Patient Advocacy, Professional Practice, Psychiatric Services, Public Opinion, Quality Assurance, recovery, Research, Stanley J, United States, Vogel-Scibilia S

PATIENTS ATTITUDES REGARDING CHAPERONES DURING PHYSICAL-EXAMINATIONS

Background. This study was undertaken to determine the preference of patients concerning the presence of a chaperon during physical examination of the breasts, genitals, rectum, heart and lungs, or abdomen. The study was designed to quantify…

Tags: 1992, adolescent females, Bourguet C C, General & Internal Medicine, Journal Article, Journal of Family Practice, Patient Advocacy, Patient Satisfaction, Penn M A, physical examinations, Physician-Patient Relations, preferences

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