Search results for "Malnutrition"
Recognize, respond to restrictive eating disorders
Hiding food, exercising discreetly, and manipulating feeding tubes are just a few behaviors hospitalists may have to address.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/03/20/recognize-respond-to-restrictive-eating-disorders.htm
20 Mar 2024
SDOH data collected for varied reasons including curriculum development, quality improvement
A review found that food security or malnutrition was the social determinant of health (SDOH) most commonly screened for among patients hospitalized on medicine services, followed by housing, transportation, employment, education, income, functional status and disability, and social support.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/12/14/sdoh-data-collected-for-varied-reasons-including-curriculum-development-quality-improvement.htm
14 Dec 2022
Thoracic Park
Get ready for the medical remakes of your favorite blockbuster movies.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/08/03/free/thoracic-park.htm
3 Aug 2022
Critical illness myopathy/polyneuropathy
The manifestations of CIM and CIP overlap, and it can be difficult to distinguish between the two conditions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/09/coding-corner-critical-illness-myopathy.htm
15 Sep 2021
Individualized nutrition support lowered mortality after heart failure hospitalization
The greatest benefit from an inpatient nutritional intervention was seen in men older than 78 years who had other acute and chronic medical illnesses in addition to heart failure, according to this secondary analysis of a randomized trial in Switzerland.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/05/05/3.htm
5 May 2021
COVID-19 updates
Some new COVID-19-related codes became effective Jan. 1, 2021.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/04/coding-corner-covid-19-updates.htm
15 Apr 2021
Malnutrition, diuretics, and more
Research summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/02/recent-research.htm
15 Feb 2021
Obesity
Differing definitions of obesity categories can complicate documentation.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/10/coding-corner-obesity.htm
15 Oct 2020
coding corner 6 ACP Hospitalist • October 2020 A ...
The WHO describes obesity as a type of “malnutrition,” but controversy and confusion sometimes arise over the notion that.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/10/acph-202010-coding-corner-obesity_t2.pdf
30 Sep 2020
coding corner 6 ACP Hospitalist • October 2020 A ...
The WHO describes obesity as a type of “malnutrition,” but controversy and confusion sometimes arise over the notion that.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/10/acph-202010-coding-corner-obesity_t1.pdf
30 Sep 2020