Attention has recently been focused on medical errors as a cause of morbidity and mortality in clinical practice. Although much has been written regarding the cognitive aspects of decisionmaking and the importance of ...
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Attention has recently been focused on medical errors as a cause of morbidity and mortality in clinical practice. Although much has been written regarding the cognitive aspects of decisionmaking and the importance of systems management as an approach to medical error reduction, little consideration has been given to the emotional impact of errors on the practitioner. Evidence exists that errors are common in clinical practice and that physicians often deal with them in dysfunctional ways. However, there is no general acknowledgment within the profession of the inevitability of medical errors or of the need for practitioners to be trained in their management. This article focuses on the affective aspects of physician errors and presents a strategy for coping with them.
Emergency physicians have a duty to advance the care of pediatric patients in the emergency medical services (EMS) system. This policy resource and education paper, designed to support the American College of Emergenc...
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Emergency physicians have a duty to advance the care of pediatric patients in the emergency medical services (EMS) system. This policy resource and education paper, designed to support the American College of Emergency Physicians policy paper "The Role of the Emergency Physician in Emergency Medical Services for Children," describes the development of the federal EMS for Children Program, the importance of the integration of EMS for children into EMS systems, and the role of the emergency physician in EMS for children.
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Morris, AHUniv Utah
Latter Day St Hosp Sch Med Dept MedPulm Div Salt Lake City UT 84143 USA
Many clinicians are concerned that protocol supported care will become rote or "cookbook" care and will be generated without attention to the specific and changing needs of the individual critically ill pati...
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Many clinicians are concerned that protocol supported care will become rote or "cookbook" care and will be generated without attention to the specific and changing needs of the individual critically ill patient. This article addresses that concern. In addition, the author discusses the potential advantages that this decision-support approach, with bedside computerized protocols, brings to the healthcare delivery system, and what contributions to clinical care and to clinical research might be anticipated from its widespread application.
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