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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 5: Management of the child with mental health problems who is boarded in the ED

PEMBlog

This episode is a co-production of the Emergency Medical Services for Children Innovation and Improvement Center whose mission is to minimize morbidity and mortality of acutely ill and injured children across the emergency continuum. Government.

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Trump Whacks Agency That Makes the Nation’s Health Care Safer

Physicians News Digest

The episodes turned both women into advocates for patients and spurred research that made American health care safer. Haskell, of Columbia, South Carolina, has done research and helped write AHRQ-published surveys and guidebooks on patient engagement for hospitals. It also has published tools and guidelines to enhance patient safety.

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Drug Pricing Reform Gathers Steam (Part 1): White House Drug Pricing Plan Offers Laundry List of Existing Democrat Priorities

FDA Law

Currently, individual Medicare Part D plan sponsors negotiate rebates but the government is explicitly prohibited from interfering in those negotiations. The attraction of the repeal is that Part D negotiations can potentially save the federal government “hundreds of billions of dollars,” as explained in the Plan.