ACEP board-approved policy statements highlight the scope of issues being addressed in emergency medicine. New policies are initially distributed to ACEP members via Annals of Emergency Medicine and posted here. In addition, the ACEP Board of Directors has directed that all policy statements undergo automatic review when they are seven years old. Unless a policy still contains relevant information, it will then sunset. Due to the extensive time required to review seven-year-old or older policies, some are still under review.
 | | 2010 Policy Compendium |
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| | Academic Departments of Emergency Medicine in Medical Schools |
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| | ACEP believes each medical school should include an academic department of emergency medicine |
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| | ACEP Business Arrangements |
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| | ACEP Business Arrangements |
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| | ACEP Recognized Certifying Bodies in Emergency Medicine |
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| | Certification/Credentialing |
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| | Advanced Life Support Courses |
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| | Education and instructional tools |
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| | Advertising and Publicity of Emergency Medical Care |
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| | Advertising and Publicity Guidelines |
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| | Advocating for Certified Emergency Nurses (CENs) in Departments of Emergency Medicine |
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| | Support of ENA and BCEN |
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| | Air Ambulance Medical Transport Advertising and Marketing |
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| | Joint Position Statement of the American College of Emergency Physicians, the National Association of EMS Physicians®, the Air Medical Physician Association, the Association of Air Medical Services, and the National Association of State EMS Officials |
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| | Alcohol Advertising |
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| | ACEP strongly opposes advertisements of alcoholic beverages |
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| | Alcohol Screening in the Emergency Department |
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| | Alcohol awareness through screening programs |
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| | Alcohol Taxation |
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| | ACEP supports taxation on the sale of alcoholic beverages |
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| | Alternate Ambulance Transportation and Destination |
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| | Patient care and safety are the priorities for all emergency medical services. |
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| | Ambulance Diversion |
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| | Ambulance Diversion/Destination Policies |
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| | Animal Use in Research |
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| | ACEP supports the responsible use of animals in biomedical research and ongoing discussion regarding the moral status of animals and the proper scope and limits of the use of animals in research |
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| | Antitrust |
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| | The College is not organized to and may not play any role in the competitive decisions of its members or their employees, nor in any way restrict competition among members or potential members. Rather it serves as a forum for a free and open discussion of diverse opinions without in any way attempting to encourage or sanction any particular business practice. |
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| | Appropriate Interhospital Patient Transfer |
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| | The optimal health and well-being of the patient should be the principal goal of patient transfer. |
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| | Appropriate Utilization of Air Medical Transport in the Out-of-Hospital Setting |
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| | An air medical helicopter should be an appropriately equipped and licensed ambulance that is staffed with adequate personnel to provide rapid and stabilizing care under various conditions. |
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| | Assault Weapon Ban |
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| | ACEP supports ban on assault weapons and high capacity magazines. |
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| | Assignment of Benefits |
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| | Provide for the fair and efficient payment of medical claims |
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| | Automatic Crash Notification and Intelligent Transportation Systems |
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| | Automatic Crash Notification and Intelligent Transportation Systems: Implications for the Emergency Physician |
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| | Availability of Hospital Diagnostic and Therapeutic Services |
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| | Supports policies that endorse consistent 7-days a week availability of hospital diagnostic and therapeutic services |
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| | Balance Billing |
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| | Prohibition of balanced billing. |
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| | Blood Alcohol Concentration and Driving |
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| | Prohibit alcohol-impaired driving, |
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| | Bloodborne Infections in Emergency Medicine |
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| | Ensuring that all individuals have access to emergency care and treatment regardless of HIV or other infectious disease status, and preventing exposure to and nosocomial transmission of those bloodborne infections. |
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| | Boarding of Admitted and Intensive Care Patients in the Emergency Department |
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| | Hospitals have the responsibility to provide quality patient care and optimize patient safety by ensuring the prompt transfer of patients admitted to inpatient units as soon as the treating emergency physician makes such a decision. |
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| | Caring for Emergency Department 'Boarders' |
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| | ACEP recommends hospitals allocate staff so staffing ratios are balanced throughout the hospital to avoid overburdening emergency department staff while maintaining patient safety |
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| | Certificate of Competency in Critical Care Medicine |
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| | Provide a Certificate of Special Competency in Critical Care for those board certified in emergency medicine who meet the appropriate requirements. |
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| | Civil Commitment |
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| | ACEP supports the use of written department guidelines or policies addressing the commitment of emergency patients. |
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| | Code of Ethics for Emergency Physicians |
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| | A Compendium of ACEP Policy Statements on Ethical Issues Revised 2002-2009 |
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| | Collective Bargaining, Work Stoppages, and Slowdowns |
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| | The College believes that it is the duty of emergency physicians to work for the continuous availability of emergency medical care should a work stoppage occur. |
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| | College Board Member and Officer Expert Testimony |
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| | Board members and Council officers of ACEP shall not provide expert testimony in professional liability litigation during his or her term in office. |
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| | Compensation Arrangements for Emergency Physicians |
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| | Compensation arrangements for emergency physicians. |
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| | Compensation When Services are Mandated |
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| | Mandate an adequate source of funding to ensure appropriate compensation for services or products. |
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| | Conflict of Interest |
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| | Conflicts of Interest in Biomedical Research |
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| | Considerations for Emergency Physicians in Pre-retirement Years |
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| | Corporal Punishment of Children |
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| | Crowding |
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| | Cultural Awareness and Emergency Care |
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| | Death of a Child in the Emergency Department |
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| | Definition of an Emergency Service |
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| | Definition of Democracy in Emergency Medicine Practice |
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| | Definition of Emergency Medicine |
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| | Delivery of Agents for Procedural Sedation and Analgesia by Emergency Nurses |
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| | Delivery of Care to Undocumented Persons |
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| | Direction of Out-of-Hospital Care at the Scene of Medical Emergencies |
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| | Disaster Data Collection |
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| | Disaster Medical Response |
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| | Disaster Medical Services |
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| | Disaster Planning and Response |
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| | Disclosure of Medical Errors |
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| | Discontinuing Resuscitation in the Out-of-Hospital Setting |
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| | Domestic Family Violence |
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| | Domestic Violence: The Role of EMS Personnel |
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| | Drug-Assisted Intubation in the Prehospital Setting |
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| | Early Defibrillation Programs |
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| | E-codes and Injury Surveillance Data Systems |
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| | (ACEP) supports the development of adequate injury data and surveillance systems, including external-cause-of-injury codes (E-codes), Crash Outcomes Data Element System (CODES), and National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) in all 50 states. |
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| | Economic Credentialing |
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| | Emergency Ambulance Destination |
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| | Emergency Care Data |
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| | Emergency Contraception for Women at Risk of Unintended and Preventable Pregnancy |
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| | Emergency Department Nurse Staffing |
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| | Emergency Department Observation Services |
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| | Emergency Department Planning and Resource Guidelines |
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| | Emergency Department Utilization During Outbreaks of Influenza |
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| | Emergency Information Form for Children With Special Health Care Needs |
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| | Emergency Medicine Training, Competency and Professional Practice Principles Position Statement |
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| | Emergency Medicine Workforce |
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| | Emergency Medicine's Role in Organ and Tissue Donation |
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| | Emergency Physician Contractual Relationships |
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| | Emergency Physician Overhead |
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| | Emergency Physician Rights and Responsibilities |
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| | Emergency Physician Shift Work |
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| | Emergency Physician Stewardship of Finite Resources |
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| | Emergency Physicians' Patient Care Responsibilities Outside of the Emergency Department |
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| | Emergency Ultrasound Guidelines |
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| | Emergency Ultrasound Imaging Criteria Compendium |
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| | EMS as an Essential Public Safety Service |
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| | EMS Communication Network |
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| | EMTALA and On-call Responsibility for Emergency Department Patients |
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| | Equipment for Ambulances |
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| | Ethical Issues at the End of Life |
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| | Ethical Issues of Resuscitation |
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| | Evaluation and Treatment of Minors |
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| | Expanded Roles of EMS Personnel |
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| | Expert Witness Guidelines for the Specialty of Emergency Medicine |
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| | Fair Payment for Emergency Department Services |
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| | Family Leave of Absence |
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| | Fictitious Patients |
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| | Filming in the Emergency Department |
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| | Financing of Graduate Medical Education in Emergency Medicine |
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| | Firearm Injury Prevention |
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| | Gifts to Emergency Physicians from Industry |
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| | Good Samaritan Protection |
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| | Guidelines for Care of Children in the Emergency Department |
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| | Guidelines for Smallpox Vaccination for Health Care Workers |
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| | Guidelines for Undergraduate Education in Emergency Medicine |
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| | Guidelines Regarding the Role of Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners in the Emergency Department |
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| | Handling of Hazardous Materials |
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| | Health Care Guidelines for Cruise Ship Medical Facilities |
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| | Health Care System Surge Capacity Recognition, Preparedness, and Response |
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| | Health Courts |
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| | Health Information Standards |
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| | Health Information Technology |
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| | Health Promotion Revenues ('Sin Taxes') |
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| | HIV Testing and Screening in the Emergency Department |
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| | Hospital Disaster Physician Privileging |
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| | Immunization of Adults and Children in the Emergency Department |
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| | Implementation of EMS Interventions |
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| | Injury Control/Trauma Data Banks |
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| | Interfacility Transportation of the Critical Care Patient and Its Medical Direction |
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| | International Development and Promotion of Emergency Medicine |
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| | Interpretation of Imaging Diagnostic Studies |
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| | Law Enforcement Information Gathering in the Emergency Department |
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| | Leadership in Emergency Medical Services |
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| | Legal Sanctions and Rehabilitation for Driving Under the Influence |
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| | Malpractice Reform |
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| | Managed Care and Emergency Medical Ethics |
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| | Management of the Patient with the Complaint of Sexual Assault |
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| | Medical Direction for Staffing of Ambulances |
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| | Medical Direction of Emergency Medical Services |
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| | Medical Screening of Emergency Department Patients |
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| | Medical Services Coding |
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| | Military Emergency Medical Services Systems |
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| | Military Emergency Medicine |
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| | Model of the Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine |
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| | Motor Vehicle Safety |
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| | Motorized Recreational Vehicle/Craft* Safety |
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| | Non-Beneficial ('Futile') Emergency Medical Interventions |
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| | Non-Discrimination |
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| | Optimizing the Treatment of Pain in Patients with Acute Presentations |
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| | Out-of-Hospital 12-Lead ECG |
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| | Patient- and Family-Centered Care and the Role of the Emergency Physician Providing Care to a Child in the Emergency Department |
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| | Patient Confidentiality |
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| | Patient Medical Condition Identification Systems |
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| | Patient Medical Records in the Emergency Department |
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| | Patient Support Services |
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| | Pediatric Mental Health Emergencies in the Emergency Medical Services System |
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| | Personal Protective Equipment Guidelines for Health Care Facility Staff |
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| | Physician Credentialing and Delineation of Clinical Privileges in Emergency Medicine |
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| | Physician Impairment |
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| | Physician Medical Direction of Emergency Medical Services Dispatch Programs |
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| | Physician Medical Direction of Emergency Medical Services Education Programs |
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| | Poison Information and Treatment Systems |
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| | Prior Authorization |
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| | Procedural Sedation in the Emergency Department |
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| | Professional Liability Insurance for EMS Medical Control Activities |
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| | Protection from Physical Violence in the Emergency Department Environment |
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| | Providers of Unsupervised Emergency Department Care |
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| | Providing Telephone Advice from the Emergency Department |
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| | Public Training in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Public Access Defibrillation |
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| | Rapid-Sequence Intubation |
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| | Recognition of Subspecialty Boards In Emergency Medicine |
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| | Reform of Tort Law |
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| | Refusal of Medical Aid (RMA) |
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| | Reporting of Medical Errors |
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| | Resident Training for Practice in Non-Urban Areas |
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| | Responsibility for Admitted Patients |
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| | Restrictive Agreements in Emergency Medicine Contracts |
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| | Retail-Based Clinics |
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| | Role of the Emergency Physician in Injury Prevention and Control for Adult and Pediatric Patients |
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| | Role of the State EMS Medical Director |
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| | Scholarly Sabbatical Leave for Emergency Medicine Faculty |
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| | School Bus Safety |
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| | Selective Triage for Victims of Sexual Assault to Designated Exam Facilities |
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| | Specialty Hospitals |
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| | Support for National Disaster Medical System |
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| | Tactical Emergency Medical Support |
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| | Telephone Orders in the Emergency Department |
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| | The Patient-Centered Medical Home Model |
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| | The Role of Emergency Physicians in Emergency Medical Services for Children |
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| | The Role of Emergency Physicians in the Care of Children |
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| | The Role of the Legacy Emergency Physician in the 21st Century |
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| | The Use of Pediatric Sedation and Analgesia |
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| | Third-party Payers and Emergency Medical Care |
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| | Tobacco Products - Public Policy Measures |
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| | Trauma Care Systems Development, Evaluation and Funding |
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| | Triage Scale Standardization |
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| | Universal Bicycle Helmet Use |
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| | Universal Health Care Coverage |
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| | Unsolicited Medical Personnel Volunteering at Disaster Scenes |
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| | Use of Intravenous tPA for the Management of Acute Stroke in the Emergency Department |
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| | Use of Nurse Implemented Order Sets |
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| | Use of Patient Restraints |
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| | Use of Peak Expiratory Flow Rate Monitoring for the Management of Asthma in Adults in the Emergency Department |
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| | Use of Short Courses in Emergency Medicine as Criteria for Privileging or Employment |
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| | Use of Ultrasound Imaging by Emergency Physicians |
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| | Verification of Endotracheal Tube Placement |
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| | Violence-Free Society |
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| | Voluntary Guidelines for Emergency Medicine Practice |
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| | Voluntary Guidelines for Out-of-Hospital Practices |
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| | Watercraft Safety and Intoxication |
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| | Workforce Diversity in Health Care Settings |
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| | Worldwide Nuclear Disarmament |
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| | Writing Admission and Transition Orders |
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