Search results for "Perioperative care"
Coding corner
Coding corner Billing for routine perioperative care by hospitalists may require modifiers.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/06/coding.htm
15 Jun 2008
ESKD patients more likely to survive procedures when dialysis done closer to surgery
The 90-day mortality rate after a surgical procedure was 5.2% in Medicare patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) who last underwent dialysis three days prior to surgery, compared to 4.7% with dialysis two days prior and 4.2% with it one day prior, a retrospective study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/11/09/eskd-patients-more-likely-to-survive-procedures-when-dialysis-done-closer-to-surgery.htm
9 Nov 2022
10th Annual Top Hospitalists issue
Meet our 2017 Top Docs.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/11/10th-annual-top-hospitalists.htm
15 Nov 2017
MKSAP quiz on insulin
These cases and commentary, which focus on insulin, are excerpted from ACP's Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP16).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/04/ty.htm
15 Apr 2014
Nearly 1 in 7 community-living Medicare patients died within year after major surgery
Mortality rates after major surgery were 28% among patients who were frail and 33% among those with dementia, a prospective longitudinal cohort study of Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/10/26/nearly-1-in-7-community-living-medicare-patients-died-within-year-after-major-surgery.htm
26 Oct 2022
Letter from the Editor
This issue features extensive conference coverage from both Internal Medicine 2012 and Hospital Medicine 2012.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/06/lfe.htm
15 Jun 2012