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Every six minutes, a child younger than 5 years of age is treated in a U.S. emergency department for a stair-related injury A new study by researchers at the Center for Injury Research and Policy of The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital found that from 1999 through 2008, more than 93,000 children younger than 5 years of age were treated in U.S. emergency departments for stair-related injuries. On average, this equates to a child younger than 5 years of age being rushed...

A new study by Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) researchers found significant variation in the use of head computed tomography (CT) exams among doctors within the emergency department (ED). With advanced imaging as a driver of increasing health care costs, strategies to reduce variation in head CT use and other high-cost imaging studies may reduce cost and improve quality of care. This study is part of an effort by researchers at BWH to develop strategies for achieving the appropriate...

DENVER, March 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Patient Shield Concepts, LLC. announced plans today to apply for a GSA Schedule and actively pursue federal contracts. Federal officials appreciate GSA Schedules as a means of procuring goods and services, knowing that companies on these schedules have been qualified by the General Services Administration (GSA). Patient Shield Concepts plans on expanding their distribution model to supply their infection reducing Medstrap Holster to the surgical,...

This major release offers healthcare providers, for the first time, the ability to collect any specimen at the bedside – whether blood in the hospital or emergency department or tissues in the operating room. Tucson, AZ (PRWEB) March 10, 2012 In an effort to raise awareness and encourage the engagement of health care providers in patient safety initiatives, Sunquest Information Systems is pleased to announce today its participation in the National Patient Safety Foundation® 2012...

MedSpring Urgent Care today announced the opening of its first Houston center. This location serves the west Houston area from the southwest corner of Memorial and Kirkwood at 14045 Memorial Drive. Open 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. seven days a week including holidays, MedSpring always has a doctor on site to treat illnesses and non-life-threatening injuries. Houston, TX (PRWEB) March 10, 2012 MedSpring Urgent Care today announced the opening of its first Houston center. This location serves...

For assessing severe trauma, single-pass whole-body computed tomography (CT) can prove but not definitively exclude the presence of injuries and should be performed later than 30 minutes after admission to an emergency department for optimal results, according to a study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). Traumatic injury, caused by major traffic collisions or a fall from a height, for example, has a significant impact on health care costs, illness and death. In North America...

MISSION VIEJO, Calif., March 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Ensign Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENSG), the parent company of the Ensign(TM) group of skilled nursing, rehabilitative care services, hospice care, assisted living and urgent care companies, today announced that its urgent care joint venture, Immediate Clinic LLC, has acquired Doctors Express, a national urgent care franchise system. The asset acquisition was effective on Thursday, March 1, 2012. (Logo:...

ACEP Says Basing Coverage on Final Diagnosis Compromises Care for Patients and Violates a Federal Law Link to Video Bites: http://tinyurl.com/6q6trr9 WASHINGTON, Feb. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Health plans and state Medicaid officials are denying coverage for emergency care, based on misleading results generated by a research tool not designed for that purpose, according to the research designer Professor John Billings of New York University's Wagner School of...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- More than 18,000 emergency patients sick enough to need hospitalization would have been denied coverage of emergency care had they been Medicaid patients living in Washington State. However, since these patients live in Oregon, they were examined in the emergency department and then hospitalized. An additional 12 percent of patients who needed emergency department services would have been denied emergency care in Washington...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new imaging efficiency measure developed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to reduce CT scans in emergency departments does not accurately determine which hospitals are performing CT scans inappropriately, according to a new study published online today in Annals of Emergency Medicine ("Assessment of Medicare's Imaging Efficiency Measure for Emergency Department Patients with Atraumatic Headache"). To...