Articles Tagged With: status
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Observation Status Is Issue in Claims Denials
Patient access should be documenting the true severity of a patient’s illness on day two or three of hospitalization. By that time, there is an actual diagnosis to support the need for admission.
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The Basic Elements of Healthcare Reimbursement, Part 2
This month will continue the discussion of healthcare reimbursement by third-party payers. We began last month with a review of the diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) and associated terminology. We will continue by reviewing how medical records are coded followed by the new MS-DRGs implemented in 2007.
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Ketamine for Super-Refractory Status Epilepticus
In this retrospective paper, the authors review the efficacy and safety of ketamine infusion in patients with status epilepticus who have failed benzodiazepine, standard anticonvulsant, and at least one other anesthetic drip.
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Look for Undocumented Social Determinants of Health in Patient Charts
One conundrum for hospital case managers involves identifying patients’ social determinants of health needs when the hospital record does not list all these data. The visible data could be missing critical factors related to why patients are returning to emergency departments or are not taking their medications.
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Evaluation and Treatment of Altered Mental Status in the Emergency Department
This article will attempt to highlight the most clinically relevant and common etiologies of altered mental status that present to the emergency department.
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Status Epilepticus
Status epilepticus is a serious medical condition that is defined as a seizure lasting longer than five minutes or more than one seizure without recovery to baseline between seizures.
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Status Epilepticus
The authors present an approach to the diagnostic evaluation and therapeutic management of neonates and children in SE.