 
| Course: |
ED Management 1609
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| Target Audience: |
| This activity is intended for emergency physicians, ED nurses, and other clinicians. |
| Sponsor: |
| This activity is sponsored by AHC Media. |
| Accreditation: |
| AHC Media is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. |
| Credit Designation: |
AHC Media designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
This activity is approved by the American College of Emergency Physicians for 1.5 hours of ACEP Category 1 credits. |
| Faculty |
Author:
Dorothy Brooks
AHC Media
Managing Editor:
Leslie Hamlin
AHC Media
Executive Editor:
Shelly Morrow Mark
AHC Media
Nurse Planner:
Diana S. Contino RN, MBA, FAEN
Senior Manager, Healthcare
Deloitte Consulting LLP
Los Angeles
Executive Editor:
James J. Augustine, MD
Director of Clinical Operations, EMP Management
Canton, OH
Assistant Fire Chief and Medical Director
Washington, DC, Fire EMS
Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Emergency Medicine
Wright State University
Dayton, OH
Guest Columnist:
Caral Edelberg CPC, CPMA, CAC, CCS-P, CHC
President
Edelberg Compliance Associates
Baton Rouge, LA |
| Subjects: |
- In the wake of the Supreme Court's ruling on health care reform, hospitals and EDs still grapple with uncertainty, continued stress
- Palliative care options can ease strain on EDs, improve care for patients with poor prognoses or difficult symptoms
- ED flow facilitators make throughput center stage, achieve decreases in LWBS, LOS, and door-to-bed times
- The controversy over billing for EKG/rhythm strip interpretations in the ED
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| Objectives: |
- Apply new information about various approaches to ED management
- Discuss how developments in the regulatory arena apply to the ED setting
- Implement managerial procedures suggested by your peers in the publication.
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| Financial Disclosure: |
| Author Dorothy Brooks, Managing Editor Leslie Hamlin, Executive Editor Shelly Morrow Mark, and Nurse Planner Diana S. Contino report no consultant, stockholder, speakers bureau, research, or other financial relationships with companies having ties to this field of study. Executive Editor James J. Augustine discloses he is a stockholder in EMP Holdings. Caral Edelberg, guest columnist, discloses that she is a stockholder in Edelberg Compliance Associates.
Copyright 2012 AHC Media. All rights reserved.
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