How a single nurse in an emergency room can doom a patient's health
Robert Painter explains how triage nurses can put patients on the wrong track in ED Management, a publication for emergency medicine malpractice prevention
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Patient safety
What happens when nurses won't speak up and advocate for patients?
Nursing advocacy is essential to patient safety
Study identifies gap in care after emergency room discharge
Learn what doctors, nurses, and patients can do to mind the gap
What to do when hospital discharge instructions don't make sense
Research shows questionable diagnoses impact women of color more often than others
Houston ER doctor discharges trauma patient with spinal cord injury
EMS recognized spinal cord risk, ER didn't work it up
How to avoid unnecessary spine surgery
Tens of thousands of spine surgeries that patients don't need are done every year
Study: Some rates of hospital harms are improving, others aren't
Adverse events continue to occur in Texas hospitals
Can chiropractic adjustment cause a brachial plexus nerve injury?
Man developed neurologic injuries after chiropractic treatment on neck
Why does Texas rank at the bottom of medical and health care?
In survey after survey, the normally competitive Lone Star State comes up short