Articles Tagged With: evaluations
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Aging Physicians May Require Additional Assessments for Credentialing
There is no mandatory retirement age for physicians, but there is good reason to consider how aging may affect their abilities to safely and effectively practice medicine, especially for surgeons. Some healthcare organizations are addressing those concerns with programs that provide additional monitoring and testing for physicians as they age.
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Sports-Related Concussion
Media coverage of professional athletes experiencing irreversible damage after repeated brain trauma and of the underreported rates and risks of pediatric concussion have heightened awareness surrounding head injury in sports and recreation. Concussion is now known to be a significant public health issue, with high rates of emergency department visits and hospitalizations. Much of the current concern surrounding concussions revolves around recognition, early diagnosis, treatment modalities, return-to-play, and prevention of recurrent concussions.
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Nonaccidental Trauma
Nonaccidental trauma may be devastating. Early recognition, appropriate referrals, and timely management optimize a child’s chance for a good outcome.
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Ethics Consult Can Go Undocumented — to the Detriment of Ethics Department
Many problems can occur if ethics consults are documented sparsely or not at all. Lack of documentation hinders the ethics service from knowing how it is performing.
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How to Make Performance Evaluations Useful for Everyone
Performance evaluations should be conducted throughout the year and in a thoughtful way that increases their usefulness and helps staff improve their work skills.
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Sports-Related Concussion
Concussion is now known to be a significant public health issue, with high rates of emergency department visits and hospitalizations. Much of the current concern surrounding concussions revolves around recognition, early diagnosis, treatment modalities, return-to-play, and prevention of recurrent concussions.
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Syncope
Relying on the most current literature, this article discusses the causes of syncope and syncope mimics, provides the best practice evaluation strategies, and will refamiliarize emergency physicians with current state-of-the-art practices regarding syncope risk stratification guidelines.
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College of Surgeons Addresses Aging with Controversial Statement
The first sign of trouble happened when the surgeon was 78. He performed surgery on a woman who subsequently developed a pulmonary embolism. The nurses made urgent calls, but he didn’t respond. The woman died.
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Educators correct ‘bad habits’ during evaluations
New patient access hires are trained at Birmingham-based Children’s of Alabama in the following ways: