Interrater reliability was 0.94 using Krippendorff’s alpha for this coding of emotional valence. This emotional valence was mostly influenced by patients’ assessment of the quality of care, services received, and their timeliness. The emotional valence was positive among 81% of the comments in ...
鈥淣o Abnormality Detected鈥 A Mixed-Methods Examination of Emergency Department Coding Practices for People in Suicidal CrisisMolly McCarthyPooja SainiProf Rajan NathanEmma AshworthJason McIntyre
Emergency department ICER: Incremental cost-effectiveness ratio LRTI: Lower respiratory tract infection LUS: Lung ultrasound LUS-OSAUS: Lung-ultrasound objective structured assessment of technical skills PCT: Procalcitonin QALYs: Quality-adjusted life years SGUM: Swiss Society of Ultrasonography ...
Following the thematic coding process, specific themes and the media items within that theme were analyzed using a critical social justice lens. While not all media items identified in our search related to inequities in the ED context, this analysis focuses on media items with equity implications ...
We have demonstrated that introducing a surgical ambulatory service and having a dedicated senior surgeon for the service resulted in a positive impact on length of stay and same day discharge rate in our department. Introduction of SACU increased the same day discharge rate for emergency GP referr...
“Variation in Emergency Department Physician Admitting Practices and Subsequent Mortality” https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2828189 Tweet This is yet another one of those “Get With The Guidelines” stroke analyses, a retrospective dredge with massive imbalances betwee...
(German system:vollstationäre Fälle) admitted in 2022. We excluded cases that were transferred from another hospital. Cases transferred from another hospital were identified by admission reason “transfer” in the hospital data and coding of the respective EMS billing positions. The latter ...
today is muddled by a complicated coding system that physicians must complete to get paid. This model incentives doctors toward volume (the number of visits with a patient) and not value (helping the patient get better, so they don’t have to go to the doctor). Along the way, the ...
Alcohol availability Alcohol outlet density Socioeconomic status Alcohol harms Emergency department visits 1. Introduction The substantial disease burden and societal harm attributable to alcohol is a significant public health issue (Griswold et al., 2018; Canadian Institute for Health Information, 2017)....
Khan NF, Harrison SE, Rose PW (2010) Validity of diagnostic coding within the General Practice Research Database: a systematic review. Br J Gen Pract 60: e128–e136. Article Google Scholar Lyratzopoulos G, Neal RD, Barbiere JM, Rubin GP, Abel GA (2012) Variation in number of general...