inpatient-only listcomplicationsoutpatientRAPID RECOVERYOUTPATIENTLENGTHHIPBackground: The 2018 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) removal of total knee arthroplasty (TKA) from the Inpatient-Only (IPO) list was accompanied by confusion, lack of central guidance on patient selection criteria,...
We also present only hospital charge data, which likely overestimates actual spending. Available cost-to-charge ratios give an estimation of hospital expenses for the ED visit or admission but do not provide information on reimbursement amounts or the cost borne by the patient; hence, we used ...
Comparisons between datasets were complex due to variable interpretation, sub-branch responses, and variable categorisation, although our review consistently counted only initial branches as distinct variables. The NID data system is coded in REDCap, necessitating a license; however, a transition to ...
Regarding the number of operations that patients under- went during their hospital stay, 770 (85.9%) of them had at least one operation, and only 1.5% of the patients had more than one surgery. The median length of hospital stay was 3 with an IQR of (2–5) days, ranging from 1 to...
This lack of dementia knowledge was sometimes compensated for by family members with strong knowledge. However, this was only the case for some participants. …Mum’s fortunate because at least I know about memory impairment. What about all the families that don’t and can’t put things in ...
the number of different specialities was used. In other words, even if a patient was consulted to a given speciality more than once, for such a consultation, we added only 1 to the number of consultations. However, if a specialty was consulted for more than one reason, all reasons were ...
The decrease in NSSI and overall illness severity, and the increase in psychosocial functioning from baseline to follow-up 1 were greater in the outpatient only group, with comparable improvements between groups from follow-up 1 to follow-up 2. Both outpatient treatment and combined outpatient/...