Search results for "Thrombosis"
Work hour limits: No gain without pain
Nobody would want their child riding on an icy road at 70 miles per hour in a school bus driven by someone whose head keeps nodding. Similarly, who would want to be cared for by a physician who is so fatigued he can’t remember the difference between the cranium and the cremaster?.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/03/free/newman.htm
15 Mar 2009
Journal watch: Recent studies of note
Recent studies about warfarin use during chemotherapy, C. glabrata bloodstream infection, and other topics.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/05/research.htm
15 May 2009
Documenting skin ulcers: The pressure is on
Physicians must carefully identify patients at high risk of developing pressure ulcers and then initiate and document prevention strategies.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/05/coding.htm
15 May 2009
Journal watch: Recent studies of note
Recent studies about statins use before stroke, heparin dose after STEMI, and other topics.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/06/jw.htm
15 Jun 2009
Caring for the pregnant patient
Every hospitalist is likely to encounter a pregnant patient during his or her career and needs to be versed in the diagnosis and treatment of hypertension, preeclampsia, asthma, venous thromboembolism and diabetes.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/07/pregnant.htm
15 Jul 2009
Journal watch: recent studies of note
Recent studies about pressure stocking use after stroke, hospital-acquired pneumonia, and other topics.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/09/jw.htm
15 Sep 2009
MKSAP: Sedation and ventilation
The following cases and commentary, which address sedation and ventilation, are excerpted from ACP’s Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP14).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/09/test.htm
15 Sep 2009
acp-hosp0910:acp-hosp0910
Physician doc-umentation of venous thrombosis will be coded as acute ifnot further specified. ... History of” venous embolism or thrombosis isreported with a V code representing a personal history of thiscondition.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/10/acph-200910-coding_t1.pdf
29 Sep 2009
CMS updates payments, quality measures for 2010
October 1 is an important time to evaluate coding changes because it's when CMS’ annual update to the inpatient prospective payment system (MS-DRGs) takes effect.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/10/coding.htm
15 Oct 2009
Journal watch: Recent studies of note
Recent studies about predicting surgical outcomes, abdominal CTs for C. diff patients, and other topics.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/10/jw.htm
15 Oct 2009