Search results for "Sepsis"
Third-party partnerships influenced hospitals' participation in bundled payment programs
Compared to hospitals without third-party partnerships, those that partnered with private consulting firms in Medicare's voluntary Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative were more likely to select inpatient clinical episodes with higher target prices, leading to greater savings opportunities, a recent study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/08/11/4.htm
11 Aug 2021
Pandemic lessons, VTE prediction, and COVID-19 effects on other inpatients
One hospital reduced unnecessary labs during the pandemic, while another collected nine lessons to improve health care. Other recent studies looked at venous thromboembolism (VTE) in COVID-19 inpatients and mortality rates among patients hospitalized for other conditions during last year's surges.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/07/28/1.htm
28 Jul 2021
Ask Dr. Pinson
Get answers to questions about obesity, ultrasound guidance, and other coding conundrums.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/07/coding-corner-qa.htm
15 Jul 2021
Counting lives saved
Commonly used tallies of medical errors may dramatically overestimate their toll.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/07/counting-lives-saved-issues-with-medical-errors.htm
15 Jul 2021
Proprietary sepsis prediction model not accurate in external validation study
The Epic Sepsis Model had low sensitivity and did a poor job identifying sepsis in hospitalized patients, researchers found. It also potentially increased alert fatigue, by generating alerts in 18% of hospitalized patients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/06/30/3.htm
30 Jun 2021
Diuretic guidance, endocarditis risks, and more
Research summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/06/recent-research.htm
15 Jun 2021
Take cardiac symptoms in women seriously
An expert reviewed conditions with different presentations or higher incidence in women.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/06/take-cardiac-symptoms-in-women-seriously.htm
15 Jun 2021
Toxic-metabolic encephalopathy
The causes of encephalopathy are important to determine and document.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/06/coding-corner-toxic-metabolic-encephalopathy.htm
15 Jun 2021
Elevated troponin I levels during sepsis may indicate risk for postsepsis CV complications
A U.S. retrospective study looked at rates of atherosclerotic disease, atrial fibrillation, and heart failure in the year after sepsis in patients with elevated troponin I levels and no previous diagnosis of cardiovascular (CV) disease.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/06/09/2.htm
9 Jun 2021
coding corner June 2021 • ACP Hospitalist 7 Potential ...
coding corner. June 2021 • ACP Hospitalist 7. Potential metabolic causes include fever, dehydration, electrolyte imbalance, acidosis, hypoxemia, any infection, sepsis, or organ failure (e.g., liver, kidney, cardiovascular).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/06/acph-202106-coding-corner-toxic-metabolic-encephalopathy_t1.pdf
3 Jun 2021