Pulmonary complications common with MRSA.(News)

Pediatric News;  November 1, 2005 ;     449 words ......pulmonary imaging, 21 (45%) received a primary diagnosis of pneumonia. Four of these had bacteremia...Twenty patients (43%) received a primary diagnosis of osteomyelitis; most (85%) had...interstitial disease. Patients with a primary diagnosis of pneumonia were significantly ...

Gene predicts MRSA-related pulmonary complications.(Infectious...

Family Practice News;  October 15, 2005 ;     465 words ......pulmonary imaging, 21 (45%) received a primary diagnosis of pneumonia. Four of these had bacteremia...total of 20 patients (43%) received a primary diagnosis of osteomyelitis; most (85%) had...interstitial disease. Patients with a primary diagnosis of pneumonia were significantly ...

Use of Physical Therapy in Patients Hospitalized with a Diagnosis of...

Journal of Allied Health;  October 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......groups of patients hospitalized with a primary diagnosis of generalized weakness who did or...intervention. Patients hospitalized with a primary diagnosis of generalized weakness who received...hospitalized with generalized weakness as a primary diagnosis typically are undergoing ...

Oxygen transport deficits in systemic disease and implications for...

Physical Therapy;  February 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......include: * an 11-year-old boy with a primary diagnosis of Down syndrome and a secondary...defect * a 37-year-old woman with a primary diagnosis of scleroderma and a secondary diagnosis...disease * a 75-year-old man with a primary diagnosis of right cerebrovascular accident...

1998 and 1998 Caseload Characteristics in Psychiatry: Primary...

Clinical Psychiatry News;  August 1, 2001 ;     49 words ...DATA WATCH 1998 and 1998 Caseload Characteristics in Psychiatry: Primary Diagnosis Percent of Patients 1988-1989 1998 Affective 24 38 Schizophrenia 14 13 Personality 13 7 Anxiety 12 14 Drug or Alcohol 9 9 Childhood...

CDC reports on racial differences in patients with ESRD. (Practice...

American Family Physician;  August 15, 2007 ;     218 words ......likelihood that diabetes was the primary diagnosis for patients with ESRD was higher...patients. Patients with ESRD whose primary diagnosis was hypertension were three times...When glomerulonephritis was the primary diagnosis, patients were more likely to be...

Big increase in number of obese patients.(News)

Birmingham Evening Mail (England);  August 25, 2005 ;     218 words ......Figures released by Health Ministers show obesity was the primary diagnosis for 111 patients in Birmingham and the Black Country last...Dr Taylor said: It is unusual for consultants to make a primary diagnosis of obesity because they usually diagnosis the condition...

Private centres 'starve NHS of key data'

Yorkshire Post;  February 7, 2008 ;     302 words ......the centres was at least 25 per cent lower than the NHS. Primary diagnosis records - which provide essential details for calculating...cent of inpatient records. Some centres provided all the primary diagnosis information but Eccleshill in Bradford provided none and...

Nailing down pre-op clearance exams

Medical Economics;  October 11, 2002 ;     700+ words ......surgery (e.g., broken hip) as the primary diagnosis, Holley notes, but Medicare has specifically...surgery should not be used as the primary diagnosis. Instead, Medicare has stated that...should use the V72.81-84 series as the primary diagnosis for all pre-op clearance examinations...

DIFFICULTY BREATHING: AGREEMENT OF PARAMEDIC AND EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN...

Prehospital Emergency Care;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......computer to find the ED's primary diagnosis. This diagnosis is arrived...All records contain a primary diagnosis independent of patient...vs. admission). This ED primary diagnosis was considered the "gold...

Alcohol admissions soar ; E Yorks: Alcohol-related hospital admissions in...

Hull Daily Mail (UK);  May 23, 2008 ;     153 words ......increase between 2003-04 and 2006-07, where alcohol was a primary diagnosis in NHS admissions. In the East Riding, there was a 23.9...11-year period, with 57,142 admissions where alcohol was the primary diagnosis in 2006-07. Of these admissions, almost one in 10 (4,888...

Coding dilemmas

Dermatology Times;  October 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Q & A MS.Codit Code for primary diagnosis? Confused on excision coding, 'cartloads...diagnosis? I remember reading that the primary diagnosis is the reason the patient came into...correct in that one should code the primary diagnosis to the E/M visit. That's how it must...

Number of lung transplants in U.S. increased 10-fold from 1998 to 1996,...

Transplant News;  April 29, 1997 ;     700+ words ......Transplant Recipients: The most common primary diagnosis for patients needing heart transplants...Transplant Recipients: The most common primary diagnosis for liver transplants is non-cholestatic...Recipients: Diabetes is the most common primary diagnosis for kidney transplants, ...

Payment system thwarts efforts to treat obesity: many physicians try to...

OB GYN News;  November 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......physicians could code for obesity as the primary diagnosis they could spend less time trying...code the comorbid condition as the primary diagnosis and including obesity as the secondary...physicians who code for obesity as the primary diagnosis. This is expected to result in two...

Payment system thwarts efforts to treat obesity: many physicians try to...

Family Practice News;  November 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......physicians could code for obesity as the primary diagnosis they could spend less time trying...code the comorbid condition as the primary diagnosis and include obesity as the secondary...physicians who code for obesity as the primary diagnosis. This is expected to result in two...