A total of 55,166 cases were identified for the primary analysis (14,540 outpatients and 40,576 inpatients). Overall, glenohumeral osteoarthritis was the most common indication for surgery (70.8%), followed by rotator cuff pathology (14.6%). The unadjusted rates of complications (1.3 vs 2.4%,...
A patient with an FND may be admitted for a variety of reasons (eg, headaches and other forms of pain, involuntary movements, strokelike symptoms, or seizurelike episodes, among others); hence, only including FND as the primary diagnosis would have undercounted the true cost of this ...
and the total number of consultations was 1712. These values were markedly higher than those of previously reported studies. In a study from Australia, it has been found that only 54% of
Regarding nursing activities, to the best of our knowledge, only one study [52] reported the involvement of an expert panel for considering factors related to nursing activities (e.g., nursing intensity, Nursing Relative Value Unit) that should be integrated in a novel reimbursement model. ...
The inputs and outputs are known in the supervised learning but only inputs are known in unsupervised [26]. Deep Learning has a neural network architecture (the most popular being a convolutional neural network (CNN)) that learns from multiple layers of data and is often compared to the ...
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 ...
Our findings show that only 14.4% of overtreated people with diabetes and moderate/severe frailty were deintensified during admission. This could be due to the low rate of HbA1c assessment and other confounding factors such as stress hyperglycaemia or patient preferences that prevented deintensificatio...
Introduction: On January 1, 2018, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services removed total knee arthroplasty (TKA) from the inpatient-only (IPO) list, expanding outpatient TKA (oTKA) to include patients with insurance coverage through their programs. These regulatory changes reinforced the need ...
To assess the shift from inpatient to outpatient surgical care related to changes to the inpatient-only list in 2020 and 2021 compared with 2019.#The extent to which procedures shift from the inpatient to outpatient setting after removal from Medicare's inpatient-only (IPO) list is unknown. ...
On admission 12 of these patients were deemed high risk, however, only 50% of these patients had a plan to reduce falls. Hospice local guidelines suggest that those who have more than two falls be referred to the Falls Champion - of which there were four patients having more than three ...