present‐on‐admission indicatorOBJECTIVES: To evaluate national present-on-admission (POA) reporting for hospital-acquired pressure ulcers (HAPUs) and examine the impact of quality measure exclusion criteria on HAPU rates. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING: Medicare inpatient, outpatient, and nursing facility ...
injuries(fractures,disloca-tions,intracranialinjury,crushinginjury,burn,andotherunspecifiedeffectsofexternalcauses)POAguidelinesareincludedinappendixIofthe“ICD-9-CMOfficialGuidelinesforCodingandReporting.”Theguidelinesincludegeneralreport-ingrequirementsaswellasclarificationonwhatismeantbypresentonadmission.(Conditions...
This article describes the development of Potentially Preventable Complications (PPCs), a new method that uses a present on admission (POA) indicator to identify in-hospital complications among secondary diagnoses that arise after admission. Analyses that used PPCs to obtain risk-adjusted complication ...
(more than 5 days) patients and although patients with late-onset VAP had more significant antibiotic exposure in the prior month and higher Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II scores on admission to ICU, both early- and late-onset VAP patients had similar rates of MDR ...
This study investigated the usefulness of present-on-admission (POA), specifically focusing on decubitus ulcers, delirium, and hypokalemia, as an indicator of healthcare quality.Patients and Methods: We analyzed patient discharge data for 14 years from 2006 to 2019 using Korean Nat...
Present On Admission Indicator Is Essential to Evaluate Symptom Status and Stroke Rate After CAS and CEA Using Administrative DataMasked hypertensionblood pressureambulatory blood pressurecardiovascular riskFailure to show benefit in some cardiovascular and renal outcome trials may be a consequence of masked...
Diagnostic value and reliability of the present-on-admission indicator in different diagnosis groups: pilot study at a Swiss tertiary care centerCoding the POA indicator identified diagnoses which were pre-existent with insufficient reliability on individual patient's level. The overall fair to ...
Identifying potentially preventable complications using a present on admission indicator. Health Care Financ Rev 2006; 27: 63-82.Hughes J.S., et al.: Identifying potentially preventable complications using a present on admission indicator. Health Care Financ Rev 27:63-82, Spring 2006....
Departmental mortality review and present on admission indicator reporting improves observed-to-expected mortality ratiosclimatic factorseffectsgerminationseedsweedsGermination of Rumex obtusifolius L. seeds is potentiated to an observable degree in 2 minutes by a single shift in temperature from 20 to 35...
Hughes JS, Averill RF, Goldfield NI, Gay JC, Muldoon J, McCullough E, Xiang J: Identifying potentially preventable complications using a present on admission indicator. Health Care Financ Rev 2006, 27:3.Hughes, J., Averill, R., Goldfield, N., Gay, J., Muldoon, J., McCullough, E.,...