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November ACP Hospitalist online and in the mail
This issue reveals the latest group of ACP Hospitalist's Top Hospitalists and delves into oxygen supplementation, malnutrition, and transitions of care.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/11/14/5.htm
14 Nov 2018
New global definition for malnutrition
A new definition of malnutrition was published by the Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition in September.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/11/coding-corner-new-global-definition-for-malnutrition.htm
15 Nov 2018
Top Docs, oxygen, and numbers
This issue introduces you to our 10 latest Top Hospitalists.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/11/letter-from-the-editor.htm
15 Nov 2018
Moving beyond medical needs
Some hospitals are treating patients' food and housing shortages.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/03/moving-beyond-medical-needs.htm
15 Mar 2019
CODING CORNER May 2019 • ACP Hospitalist 5 Diagnosis-related ...
Pneumonia. HIV disease/AIDS Quadriplegia/functional quadriplegia. Hypertensive crisis Severe malnutrition. Hyponatremia Toxic or metabolic encephalopathy. ... Mild/moderate malnutrition. Pancytopenia, unspecified cause. CC=comorbidities and complications. MCC=major comorbidities and complications.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/05/acph-201905-coding-corner-the-abcs-of-drgs_t1.pdf
27 Apr 2019
coding corner 8 ACP Hospitalist • June 2019 Hierarchical ...
Malnutrition (HCC 21) and amputation status (HCC 189) are heavily weighted. ... 21 Malnutrition 0.554 10 codes. 22 Morbid obesity/BMI 40 kg/m2 0.262 7 codes.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/06/acph-201906-coding-corner-hccs-explained_t1.pdf
29 May 2019
Identify the toxin
An Internal Medicine Meeting 2019 speaker outlined overdose causes.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/06/im-identify-the-toxin.htm
15 Jun 2019
MKSAP quiz on hepatology
This month's quiz includes questions from ACP's Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP 18) about the liver.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/06/mksap-quiz-on-hepatology.htm
15 Jun 2019
HCCs explained
Hierarchical condition categories (HCCs) are used by Medicare for risk adjustment.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/06/coding-corner-hccs-explained.htm
15 Jun 2019
Corticosteroids bundled with other interventions didn't improve outcomes in CAP
An Australian trial randomized hospital patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) to a week of corticosteroids, de-escalation to oral antibiotics, early mobilization, and malnutrition screening and treatment.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/07/17/2.htm
17 Jul 2019