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Category: Special Topics
Over a third of trauma patients are over-triaged
State trauma systems try to put scarce resources to the best use. Yet, over-triage of minor injuries is costly and inefficient. With estimated costs as high as $163 billion, trauma care represents close to 10% of US health care expenditures. Continue Reading …
Breastmilk: It Does a Body Good!
Breastmilk: It Does a Body Good! [Originally published on the All Things Health Care Blog] October 22, 2013 by Loan Nguyen Pryor As you may know, I recently received my MSN (Masters in Nursing) and MPH (Public Health). Since becoming a new Continue Reading …
Are You in Love with Mary Jane?
Does the availability of medical marijuana increase the risk of recreational use among teens? Data suggest not. Since 1996, when California became the first state in the US to pass a medical marijuana law (MML) and provided broad protection against Continue Reading …
Cellphone ban policies
http://www.aaem.org/UserFiles/EPAdvocates-Episode8.mp3 In this Policy Prescriptions® edition of the AAEM Emergency Physician Advocates: Legal and Policy Issues in Emergency Medicine podcast, Cedric Dark, MD MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Emergency Medicine Residency Program at Baylor College of Medicine, speaks with Continue Reading …
Family planning & Medicaid
Expansion of Medicaid has been one of the most controversial provisions in health reform. With the Supreme Court’s June 2012 ruling that states could opt out of the Medicaid expansion, nearly half the states in the country are leaning towards Continue Reading …
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