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ED Legal Letter covers emergency medicine from the perspective of risk management and malpractice prevention. Each monthly issue reviews legal issues relating to emergency medicine practice and offers specific recommendations for reducing risk in the ED.

ED Legal Letter is guidance and advice from professionals, including MD/JDs, who understand both sides of extremely complex issues related to business, medicine, and the law. This is practical advice that is clearly and succinctly written, designed to give insight into running EDs safely and effectively. Click here to see all recently published issues/articles from ED Legal Letter.

Note: This publication continues to offer AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ recognized by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education and continuing education contact hours recognized by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Effective with the January 2019 issue, ED Legal Letter does not offer American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Category I credits. Subscribers can still earn ACEP Category I credits by rereading past issues that offer that credit and taking each online test with a passing score.

ED Legal Letter Covers:

• Malpractice prevention
• Risk management
• Proper documentation
• And much more ...

Click here to see all recently published issues/articles from ED Legal Letter.

 

Benefits of Subscribing to ED Legal Letter Include:

• 12 issues a year
• 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ per issue; 18 annually
• 1.5 nursing contact hours per issue; 18 annually

Awards Won by ED Legal Letter:

• Third place, Best Instructional Reporting, Newsletter & Electronic Publishers Foundation, 2004
• First place, Best Single Topic Health Newsletter, Newsletter Publishers Foundation, 1997

Faculty:

Physician Editor:

Arthur R. Derse, MD, JD, FACEP
Director and Professor
Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities
Institute for Health and Society
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee

Nurse Planner:

Kay Ball, PhD, RN, CNOR, CMLSO, FAAN
Professor of Nursing
Otterbein University
Westerville, OH

Editorial Advisory Board:

Sue A. Behrens, RN,  DPN, ACNS-BC, NEA-BC
Senior Director
Ambulatory and Emergency Department
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Robert A. Bitterman, MD, JD, FACEP
President
Bitterman Health Law Consulting Group, Inc.
Harbor Springs, MI

Kevin Klauer, DO, EJD
Chief Medical Officer
TeamHealth
Knoxville, TN

Jonathan D. Lawrence, MD, JD, FACEP
Emergency Physician
St. Mary Medical Center
Long Beach, CA
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Department of Emergency Medicine
Harbor/UCLA Medical Center
Torrance, CA

William M. McDonnell, MD, JD
Clinical Service Chief, Pediatric Emergency Medicine Medical Director
Emergency Department
Children’s Hospital & Medical Center
Omaha, NE

Larry B. Mellick, MD, MS, FAAP, FACEP
Vice Chairman, Academic Affairs
Interim Section Chief, Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Assistant Residency Director
Professor, Emergency Medicine
University of South Alabama
Mobile, AL

Gregory P. Moore, MD, JD
Attending Physician
Emergency Medicine Residency
Madigan Army Medical Center
Tacoma, WA

Richard J. Pawl, MD, JD, FACEP
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Augusta University
Augusta, GA

William Sullivan, DO, JD, FACEP, FCLM
Director of Emergency Services
St. Margaret’s Hospital
Spring Valley, IL
Clinical Instructor
Department of Emergency Medicine
Midwestern University
Downers Grove, IL
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Emergency Medicine
University of Illinois
Chicago
Sullivan Law Office
Frankfort, IL

Continuing Education Information:

Objectives:

• identify legal issues related to emergency medicine practice;
• explain how the legal issues related to emergency medicine practice affect nurses, physicians, legal counsel, management and patients;
• integrate practical solutions to reduce risk into daily practice.

Target Audience:

This activity is intended for emergency physicians and nurses.

Accreditation and Credit Designation:

Relias LLC is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Relias LLC designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (18 per year). Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Relias LLC is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Contact hours [1.5] will be awarded to participants who meet the criteria for successful completion. California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider CEP#13791.

Expiration:

This activity is in effect for 36 months from the date of the publication.

Instructions for Participation:

Physicians and nurses participate in this CME/CE activity by reading the issues, using the provided references for further research, and studying the questions at the end of each issue. Participants will then be directed to a website, where they will complete an online assessment to show what they've learned. They must score 100 on the assessment in order to complete the activity, but they are allowed to answer the questions multiple times if needed. After they have successfully completed the assessment, they will receive their credit letter. Participants will be asked to complete two activity evaluations annually.