This month’s Legal Advisor documents a case of a patient becoming acutely ill while away, and the proper steps the nurse practitioner took while in the emergency department.

Patients with dyspnea had 50% greater mortality during the following 2 years compared with those reporting no dyspnea.

"When you look through the lens of race, it's clear that one group is increasingly dying before they ever see the benefits of the system they helped fund," said lead author Irene Papanicolas, PhD.