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[citation needed] [1] The chief complaint is a concise statement describing the symptom, problem, condition, diagnosis, physician-recommended return, or other reason for a medical encounter. [2] In some instances, the nature of a patient's chief complaint may determine if services are covered by health insurance. [3]
New complaints of hospital understaffing in NY Workers at hospitals in Buffalo, Elmira and New York City submitted 7,834 staffing law complaints last week, according to their Communications ...
The state has been investigating complaints at the 394-bed hospital since last week. The hospital has been canceling or rescheduling dozens of surgeries and procedures.
Boynton was also highly critical of the internal complaints procedure: out of 178 complaints not a single one had been upheld over a four-year period. [23] The report was also highly critical of the hospital's management structure, saying that it was overreliant on central government, and made 205 recommendations. [24]
The term chief complaint, also "presenting problem", is used to describe the initial concern of an individual when seeking medical help, and once this is clearly noted a history of the present illness may be taken. The symptom that ultimately leads to a diagnosis is called a cardinal symptom.
The complaints come two years after nurses and hospital management reached an agreement to end the longest nurses' strike in state history, one that extended for more than 300 days.
A day patient (or day-patient) is a patient who is using the full range of services of a hospital or clinic but is not expected to stay the night. The term was originally used by psychiatric hospital services using of this patient type to care for people needing support to make the transition from in-patient to out-patient care. However, the ...
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