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The Emergency Department: Where the Record Moves Fastest | Episode 91
This episode opens a five-part series on the emergency department, the place where more medical-legal cases begin than anywhere else in the hospital.
Michelle Carroll starts with the fact that shapes everything about the ED: it's the only part of the hospital that doesn't choose its patients. It sorts them. A triage nurse assigns an acuity level in the first minutes, and everything after depends on that number. The ED record reflects a process, not a stay, and it carries more timestamps than any other part of the chart because the ED is measured on time.
She explains the ED tracking log, the…
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