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AuntMinnie 2014: Health information exchange lowers repeat emergency imaging

AuntMinnie

"Our findings support the widely held notion that HIE can reduce redundant medical services and thereby produce cost savings," wrote lead author Eric Lammers, PhD, and colleagues in the journal Medical Care (December 26, 2013). Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC). "As

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Return Encounters in Emergency Department Patients Treated with Phenobarbital Versus Benzodiazepines for Alcohol Withdrawal

REBEL EM

1, 2 Phenobarbital has been studied as an alternative or adjunct to benzodiazepines with encouraging results, but primarily among inpatient services. CIWA scores or some other more universal diagnostic tool for alcohol withdrawal were not routinely used s o we have no idea why one patient got more than another. DOI: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2012.07.056

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Journal Scan – This Month in Other Journals, October 2022

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The institution’s prospective Gamma Knife (GK) SRS registry was queried to identify patients treated with GKRS for ≥ 25 cumulative BMs between June 2013 and April 2020. for cerebral amyloid angiopathy: a multicentre, retrospective, MRI-neuropathology diagnostic accuracy study. 3 tables and 5 figures, with MRI 4.

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