ED Management (Vol. 27, No. 6)

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Release date: June 2015

Valid through: June 2017

Target Audience

This activity is intended for emergency physicians, ED nurses, and other clinicians.

Subjects

ED-based interventions to break cycle among patients presenting with violence-related injuries
Study: Emergency providers often lack consensus on what patients intend when end-of-life forms come into play
Clean up coding practices to maximize revenue, minimize compliance issues, and be optimally prepared for ICD-10

Objectives

Apply new information about various approaches to ED management
Discuss how developments in the regulatory arena apply to the ED setting
Implement managerial procedures suggested by your peers in the publication.

Credit Available

Physicians

Maximum of 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
1.25 ACEP Credits

Nurses

1.04 ANCC Nursing Contact Hours

Sponsor

This activity is sponsored by AHC Media.

Accreditation Statement

AHC Media is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

AHC Media is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Credit Designation

Physicians

AHC Media designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurses

This activity has been approved for 1.04 nursing contact hours using a 60-minute contact hour. Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider # CEP14749, for 1.04 Contact Hours. Nurses licensed in California should retain this credit letter for four years.

Faculty Listing

Author

Dorothy Brooks, AHC Media

Editors

EDITOR: Dorothy Brooks (dobr@bellsouth.net).

MANAGING EDITOR: Leslie Hamlin (leslie.hamlin@ ahcmedia.com)

EXECUTIVE EDITOR: Shelly Morrow Mark (shelly.mark@ ahcmedia.com)

CONTINUING EDUCATION & EDITORIAL DIRECTOR: Lee Landenberger (lee.landenberger@ahcmedia.com)

Financial Disclosure

Financial Disclosure: Author Dorothy Brooks, Managing Editor Leslie Hamlin, and Nurse Planner Diana S. Contino report no consultant, stockholder, speaker’s bureau, research, or other financial relationships with companies having ties to this field of study. Executive Editor James J. Augustine discloses he is a stockholder in EMP Holdings. Executive Editor Shelly Morrow Mark reports her husband works for a company that creates advertising for Uroplasty. Caral Edelberg, guest columnist, discloses that she is a stockholder in Edelberg Compliance Associates.

ED Management (Vol. 27, No. 6) - June 1, 2015