Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The use of mobile devices in the health care setting also enable the health care provider to quickly access patient test results sent from a POCT device. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] A reduction in morbidity and mortality has been associated with such rapid turn around times from a study using the i-STAT to analyze blood lactate levels after congenital heart ...
In health care, diagnosis codes are used as a tool to group and identify diseases, disorders, symptoms, poisonings, adverse effects of drugs and chemicals, injuries and other reasons for patient encounters. Diagnostic coding is the translation of written descriptions of diseases, illnesses and injuries into codes from a particular classification.
Multiphasic screening: The application of two or more screening tests to a large population at one time, instead of carrying out separate screening tests for single diseases. When done thoughtfully and based on research, identification of risk factors can be a strategy for medical screening. [10]
An admission note is part of a medical record that documents the patient's status (including history and physical examination findings), reasons why the patient is being admitted for inpatient care to a hospital or other facility, and the initial instructions for that patient's care. [1]
The Morse Fall Scale (MFS) is a rapid and simple method of assessing a patient’s likelihood of falling. [1] A large majority of nurses (82.9%) rate the scale as “quick and easy to use,” and 54% estimated that it took less than 3 minutes to rate a patient.
As with the ICD-10, burn-out is not in the mental disorders chapter, but in the chapter "Factors influencing health status or contact with health services", where it is coded QD85. In response to media attention over its inclusion, the WHO emphasized that the ICD-11 does not define burn-out as a mental disorder or a disease, but as an ...
The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, referred to as The Merck Manual, [1] is the world's best-selling medical textbook, [2] and the oldest continuously published English language medical textbook. [3] First published in 1899, the current print edition of the book, the 20th Edition, was published in 2018.
Diagnosis-related group (DRG) is a system to classify hospital cases into one of originally 467 groups, [1] with the last group (coded as 470 through v24, 999 thereafter) being "Ungroupable". This system of classification was developed as a collaborative project by Robert B Fetter, PhD, of the Yale School of Management , and John D. Thompson ...