Emergency Service, Hospital - Legislation & jurisprudence
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Major influences on hospital emergency management and disaster preparedness.

30 May 2009 The role of hospitals in the community response to disasters has received increased attention, particularly since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Hospitals must be prepared to respond to and recover from all-hazards emergencies and ... Read more...

Emergency legal preparedness for hospitals and health care personnel.

30 May 2009 During the past decade, hospital emergency preparedness has become a focus of local, state, and federal governments seeking to address emergencies or disasters that affect the public health. Integral to hospital emergency preparedness are numerous ... Read more...

Compliance with mandated emergency contraception in New Mexico emergency departments.

29 Apr 2009 OBJECTIVE: New Mexico enacted a law in 2003 requiring that emergency departments (EDs) offer emergency contraception (EC) to survivors of sexual assault and that both doses be administered in the ED. This investigation sought to examine practices ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Emergency Service, Hospital - Legislation & jurisprudence'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Pedriatric emergency medicine: legal briefs. 30 Jul 2009
• NY: Failure to administer TPA to stroke victim: TPA not indicated while in defendants' care. Flanagan v. Catskill Regional Medical Center, 2009-NY-06161 (8/11/2009)-NY. 30 Jul 2009
• Major influences on hospital emergency management and disaster preparedness. 30 May 2009
• Emergency legal preparedness for hospitals and health care personnel. 30 May 2009
• Are payments for neurosurgical on-call services legal? 30 May 2009
• Fed up with funding, California emergency physicians sue the state. 30 May 2009
• California court bans emergency physician balance billing: Emergency physicians decry major blow to beleaguered emergency care safety net. 30 May 2009
• Compliance with mandated emergency contraception in New Mexico emergency departments. 29 Apr 2009
• Packers, pushers and stuffers--managing patients with concealed drugs in UK emergency departments: a clinical and medicolegal review. 29 Apr 2009
• High-profile death throws spotlight on error reports. 26 Apr 2009
• ER assistance requested. Congress eyes IT to pay for department pay bump. 28 Feb 2009
• 'Unwinnable' case holds lessons for ED managers. 27 Feb 2009
• Triage nurse failed to recognize stroke symptoms! Case on point: Houston v. Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital, Inc, (1/26/2009) -GA. 30 Jan 2009
• Hospital employee assault rates before and after enactment of the california hospital safety and security act. 30 Jan 2009
• Shifting liability? when police officers 'drop off' a person in the ER. 30 Dec 2008
• Common pitfalls in giving medical-legal advice to trainees and supervisees. 30 Dec 2008
• ...And health care for all: immigrants in the shadow of the promise of universal health care. 30 Dec 2008
• Could TJC's antibiotic standard get you sued? 30 Dec 2008
• CMS memo OKs use of standing orders. 29 Nov 2008
• Medicaid program; premiums and cost sharing. Final rule. 23 Nov 2008

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Technical information about 'Emergency Service, Hospital'

Definition: Hospital department responsible for the administration and provision of immediate medical or surgical care to the emergency patient.

Descriptor UI: D004636

Alternative terms: Emergency Service, Hospital; Emergency Hospital Service; Emergency Hospital Services; Hospital Service, Emergency; Hospital Services, Emergency; Service, Emergency Hospital; Services, Emergency Hospital; Hospital Emergency Service; Service, Hospital Emergency; Emergency Services, Hospital; Hospital Emergency Services; Services, Hospital Emergency; Hospital Service Emergency; Emergencies, Hospital Service; Emergency, Hospital Service; Hospital Service Emergencies; Service Emergencies, Hospital; Service Emergency, Hospital; Emergency Outpatient Unit; Emergency Outpatient Units; Outpatient Unit, Emergency; Outpatient Units, Emergency; Unit, Emergency Outpatient; Units, Emergency Outpatient;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: N02.278.354.422.336; N02.421.297.195; N04.452.442.422.336;

Online Note: use EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL to search HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE 1966-77

History Note: 78; was HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE 1963-77

Technical Notes: DF: EMERGENCY SERV HOSP