-
Using liquid medium with a commercial air sampler, air was sampled at varying distances from 19 patients admitted to the hospital with Pneumocystis pneumonia. Samples were examined and DNA quantified using a real-time PCR assay targeting the large subunit ribosomal RNA gene.
-
Nasal carriage of mr-cons was prospectively investigated in 291 adults upon hospital admission.
-
-
According to many stakeholders of the hospital-based inpatient psychiatric services (HBIPS) core measure set, it's been a long time coming.
-
Probably the most incendiary change in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) rule for 2011 is an ultimate reduction in hospital payments.
-
Chief medical officer and executive vice president at Golden, CO-based HealthGrades, Samantha Collier, MD, MBA, is changing hats and moving inhouse.
-
-
Requirements for credentialing and privileging telemedicine providers are up in the air for now, following the May 26 release of a proposed rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
-
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) once again has changed the requirements for physician supervision, always an area of contention and confusion, in its proposed 2011 outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) rule.
-
Hamilton Ambulatory Surgery Center in Dalton, GA, has received the Summit Award from Press Ganey Associates for the fourth year in a row.
