Search results for "Malnutrition"
Placing priority on pressure ulcers
Current emphasis on public reporting of quality scores has helped make accurate documentation and effective management of pressure ulcers crucial health care considerations.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/08/coding.htm
15 Aug 2011
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
Test yourself: Nutrition
The following cases and commentary, which address nutrition, are excerpted from ACP’s Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP14).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/08/ty.htm
15 Aug 2009
Tips on TIPS and other cirrhosis treatments
Mayo Clinic internist discusses how to manage liver disease.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/12/cirrhosis.htm
15 Dec 2014
Expanding laboratory services in the Land of a Thousand Hills
The author describes a trip to western Rwanda to introduce fluorescence microscopy to one hospital's laboratory.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/12/student.htm
15 Dec 2011
Japanese physicians still treating tsunami victims
Many months after a devastating earthquake and tsunami, Japanese physicians deal with the continuing effects of the disaster.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/09/japan.htm
15 Sep 2011
Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa
This in-depth article covers epidemiology, medical pathology, and the role of an inpatient pathway to treat nutritional insufficiency (CPT 269.9).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/09/focus.htm
15 Sep 2011
A deviant approach to hospital challenges
Positive deviance is a bottom-up, rather than top-down, approach to solving seemingly intractable problems in an institution or a community. It's based on the observation that certain individuals or groups (positive deviants) have found better solutions to these problems than their peers have.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/11/positive.htm
15 Nov 2009
The Brief Case: Cases from 3 hospitals in Puerto Rico
Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis, idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/09/briefcase.htm
15 Sep 2014