Clinical Pharmacist Led Medication Reconciliation Program in an Emergency Department Observation Unit.

Medication reconciliation is the process of comparing a patient's hospital medication orders to all of the medications that the patient has been taking prior to admission. The primary aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of pharmacist-led medication reconciliation in reducing ED visit rates. The secondary aim of this study was to evaluate if a clinical pharmacist reduces medication errors in an ED observation unit (OBS).

An Observation Medicine Curriculum for Emergency Medicine Education.

Audience And Type Of Curriculum: This curriculum, designed and implemented at the Ronald O. Perelman Department of Emergency Medicine at NYU Langone Health, primarily targets third- and fourth-year emergency medicine (EM) residents, and is an immersive observation medicine rotation that can be integrated into existing emergency medicine residency training.

Length Of Curriculum: The curriculum is designed for a dedicated rotation of two weeks for senior residents and can be expanded to 4 weeks.

Implementation of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign one-hour bundle in a short stay unit: A quality improvement project.

Objective: To improve timely sepsis care by implementing the 2018 Surviving Sepsis Campaign one-hour interventions.

Design: Ten-month prospective quality improvement project.

Setting: A 38-bed short stay unit within an 800-bed hospital in New York City.

Recruiting and Training a Health Professions Workforce to Meet the Needs of Tomorrow's Health Care System.

The quality of any health care system depends on the caliber, enthusiasm, and diversity of the workforce. Yet, workforce research often focuses on the number and type of health professionals needed and anticipated shortages compared with anticipated needs. These projections do not address whether the workforce will have the requisite social, intellectual, cultural, and emotional capital needed to deliver care in an increasingly complex health care system.

Increased Public Accountability for Hospital Nonprofit Status: Potential Impacts on Residency Positions.

Background: The Institute of Medicine recently called for greater graduate medical education (GME) accountability for meeting the workforce needs of the nation. The Affordable Care Act expanded community health needs assessment (CHNA) requirements for nonprofit and tax-exempt hospitals to include community assessment, intervention, and evaluation every 3 years but did not specify details about workforce. Texas receives relatively little federal GME funding but has used Medicaid waivers to support GME expansion.

Office Visits for Women Aged 45-64 Years According to Physician Specialties.

Background: The increase in access to healthcare through the Affordable Care Act highlights the need to track where women seek their office-based care. The objectives of this study were to examine the types of physicians sought by women beyond their customary reproductive years and before being elderly.

Methods: This retrospective cohort study involved an analysis of national data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) between 2002 and 2012.

A Primary Care Panel Size of 2500 Is neither Accurate nor Reasonable.

Primary care panel sizes are an important component of primary care practices. Determining the appropriate panel size has implications for patient access, physician workload, and care comprehensiveness and will have an impact on quality of care. An often quoted standard panel size is 2500.

Improving your care of patients with spinal cord injury/disease.

Ninety percent of patients with spinal cord injury/disease identify FPs as their "regular doctors." So what can you do to keep them healthy and out of the hospital?

Saving Women, Saving Families: An Ecological Approach to Optimizing the Health of Women Refugees with S.M.A.R.T Primary Care.

More than 43 million people worldwide have been forcibly displaced from their homes as a result of conflict and persecution, over 50% of whom are women and 41% are children. The United Nations estimates that two-thirds of the world's refugees have been in exile for over 5 years, and more than half are in urban environments, as opposed to camps. Therefore, long-term strategies for healthcare in receiving countries are needed.