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Pediatric Cardiothoracic Point-of-Care Ultrasound: Part II
Ultrasound has emerged as a critical tool for use at the bedside to guide both diagnosis and treatment strategies. In this article, the authors discuss cardiac arrest, congenital abnormalities, pneumothorax, pleural effusion, and pneumonia.
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Obtaining Auths Monthly for Physicians Can Lead to Fewer Claims Denials
At first glance, offering to obtain authorizations on behalf of physicians’ offices sounds like a lot more work. However, a move like this can benefit the department in more ways than one.
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Study: Clinicians Who Provided Futile or Potentially Unnecessary Care Considering Quitting the Profession
The study also screened physicians for depression and burnout risks.
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When Rotating Revenue Cycle Staff, Both Employees and Department Win
At small critical access hospitals, patient access employees might also cover rehabilitation, outpatient, scheduling, and the ED, which can spread the staff thin. Some facilities are starting to rotate staff in all four areas. This gives these employees a working knowledge of different department functions, can make the facility more efficient, and perhaps even boost employee morale.
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To Increase Kiosk Use Rates, Do Not Overlook Personal Connection
Kiosks are expensive investments that do not always pay off for hospitals. For patient access, kiosks face two big obstacles: finding the right patient and providing benefit to that patient.
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Abdominal Pain Was Not Appendicitis? Entire ED Visit Could Be Denied
After an extensive evaluation, it turns out that an ED patient with severe abdominal pain does not have appendicitis, only constipation. This is good news medically; financially, it is a different story. The patient may end up fully responsible for the entire cost of the ED visit, deemed “unnecessary” by the insurer. For the revenue cycle, this means lots of complaints, lost revenue, and bad debt.
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Episode 14: What Providers Should Know About Acute Flaccid Myelitis, a Mysterious Neurologic Disease
Acute flaccid myelitis is a rare disease that can cause severe weakness or paralysis, slurred speech, and facial droop, among other complications. And more than 90% of cases involve children. In this episode, Olwen Murphy, MB, BCH, MRCP, discusses what medical scientists know – and don’t know – about this perplexing neurologic illness.
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Episode 1: Checking for Legionella in Your Healthcare Setting
Avoiding deadly outbreaks of a pneumonia called Legionnaires’ disease is a top concern in healthcare facilities. Janet Stout, PhD, shares advice on how to minimize the risks from Legionella, a bacteria that causes the disease and lurks in the water supply in many large facilities.
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Code Melancholia: A Review of Depression for Emergency Physicians
Although the formal diagnosis of depression seldom is made in the emergency department (ED), emergency clinicians must understand the nature of depression and be prepared to deal with its complications, including suicidality and the toxicity of many antidepressant medications.
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Sleep Deprivation Endangers Employee, Patient Safety
To address this issue of sleep deprivation, NIOSH makes available a free online training program that can be used to educate nurses and other healthcare workers.