Going back to our example above, let’s say the patient strained his or her Achilles tendon while running on a treadmill at a gym. To code for this set of circumstances, you would need an activity external cause code, a place of occurrence code, and an external cause status code. ...
With ICD-10, all systems, tools, and interfaces—responsible for submitting claims, receiving remit- tances, exchanging claim status, or conducting eligibility inquiries and responses—must be analyzed to identify software and business process impacts. Health care organizations should take inventory of ...
In the past two decades, such data have been widely employed by health services and population health researchers to study healthcare outcomes, effectiveness, appropriateness and utilization of healthcare services, and to investigate or monitor population health status and its determinants [1–11]. ...
At 30 days following the original data collection, unplanned admission, or readmission, of more than two nights to the same hospital and patient status (alive, deceased or unknown) were collected from medical records. 2.4. Malnutrition Screening Participants were screened using the Malnutrition ...