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March 01, 2025 - MRSA Rates Among Patients From Rural Areas In rural areas, adult inpatient hospital stays with MRSA diagnoses … In large metropolitan areas during the same period, adult hospital stays with MRSA diagnoses on admission … diabetes, and 6.4 times as likely to have high blood pressure, compared with children without that diagnosis
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December 01, 2017 - Top 10 diagnoses leading to the most readmissions. … Destination:
Principal Discharge Diagnosis
HHA
Home
SNF
Unspecified septicemia … Top Discharge Diagnoses:
Mood disorders.
Schizophrenia.
Diabetes.
Chemotherapy. … Top 10 diagnoses resulting in highest number of readmissions. … Percent of all readmissions accounted for by the top 10 diagnoses.
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August 01, 2023 - Nearly half of those visits ended with diagnoses of acute or chronic constipation. 18 However, studies … Pediatric diagnoses such as Kawasaki disease, bronchiolitis, autism spectrum disorder, and juvenile idiopathic … arthritis do not have singular criterion standard tests that provide a definitive diagnosis. … clinical decision support tools can be used to direct a medical evaluation and enhance differential diagnoses … Therefore, improving diagnosis in CMC must remain a priority.
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October 01, 2024 - AHRQ Study Highlights Discrepancies in Medicare Advantage Plan Reimbursement Medical diagnoses reported … Medicare Advantage plans have an incentive to find as many diagnoses as possible since their reimbursement … is based on the number of enrollee diagnoses submitted in the previous year. … Medicare, these plans make use of chart reviews and in-home health risk assessments to seek additional diagnoses … By isolating diagnoses identified through these strategies, the author determined that enrollee risk
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June 02, 2025 - .
· Provider and Staff Communication Around Diagnosis. … Providers document differential diagnoses when they have not ruled out other diagnoses
. … When a missed, wrong, or delayed diagnosis happens in this office, we are informed about it
(1
(2 … ,
Discussing the diagnosis with the patient, and
Following up with the patient and revising the … diagnosis over time, as needed.
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June 01, 2021 - Leadership To Improve Diagnosis: A Call to Action
What Can Leaders Achieve by Prioritizing Diagnostic … Good patient outcomes hinge on having an accurate and timely diagnosis. … Business case: Improving diagnosis can reduce costs. … specifically, data from autopsies indicate that approximately 10 percent of patients had missed or incorrect diagnoses … . 2 Getting accurate diagnoses in a timely fashion is a crucial component of healthcare.
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June 01, 2025 - Anyone whose scope of practice includes medical diagnosis can use Calibrate Dx. … medical offices assess the extent to which their organizations support the diagnostic process, accurate diagnoses … , and communication around diagnoses. … Questions Are the Answer : Asking questions about a diagnosis or other aspects of care is a step that … TeamSTEPPS for Diagnosis Improvement: TeamSTEPPS ® is an evidence-based program built on a framework
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September 01, 2024 - or older. 10,11 Several studies have found increasing age to be a significant predictor of missed diagnoses … echocardiograms. 5 , 13 Several studies have also suggested a correlation between older age and missed diagnoses … anorexia, or functional impairment) were the most prevalent atypical presentation. 32 Differences in diagnoses … presentation. 35 Several individual case reports describe atypical presentations of patients, challenges in diagnoses … This response can result in a missed diagnosis.
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/effectivetreatment/hiv.html
April 01, 2018 - Diagnoses of HIV Infection by Race/Ethnicity
In 2014, the estimated total number of diagnoses of … Diagnoses of HIV Infection Among Adult and Adolescent Males, by Race/Ethnicity, 2014
The estimated … Diagnoses of HIV Infection by Transmission Category
In 2014, estimated HIV diagnoses among male and … The estimated HIV diagnoses among male and female adults and adolescents excludes children under age … Diagnoses of HIV infection in the United States and dependent areas, 2014.
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August 01, 2017 - # Hospital
Admits
Within:
Hospital
Discharge
Diagnosis
High-Risk Diagnoses Associated With … IF multiple discharge diagnoses
selected:
• IF one discharge diagnosis
selected, then display selection … Active
High-Risk
Diagnoses
4. Current
Clinical
Conditions
Contributing
to Risk
5. … diagnosis code … • IF multiple discharge diagnoses are
provided:
• IF more than one discharge
diagnosis is available
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October 01, 2022 - TYPE OF SCENARIO
Diagnosis-specific
situations
WHY CONSIDER IT
Certain diagnoses are known to … Review of Pulmonary Emboli Diagnoses
• Appendix F. … Review of Pulmonary Emboli Diagnoses
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Appendix E, cont’d
Review of Pulmonary Emboli Diagnoses … Review of Colorectal Cancer Diagnoses
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Appendix F, cont’d
Review of Colorectal Cancer Diagnoses … Rview of Pulmonary Emboli Diagnoses
Appendix F. Review of Colorectal Cancer Diagnoses
Appendix G.
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January 01, 2015 - Look at:
Readmission rates by payer
Top 10 diagnoses leading to the most readmissions
Proportion of … COPD
Substance-use related
Methods:
-Used CCS groupers
-Included OB
Top 10 Principal Discharge Diagnoses … Utilization
4+ hospitalizations/year
Readmission rate 40% v. 8%
74% of discharged to home
Top Discharge Diagnoses … readmissions, by payer
Days between discharge and readmission, <4 days, <10 days, 11-30 days
Top 10 diagnoses … resulting in highest number of readmissions
Percent of all readmissions accounted for by the top 10 diagnoses
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November 30, 2013 - from hospital (principal diagnosis and
secondary diagnoses)
Surgical procedures received in the … Hospital
Admits
Within:
Hospital
Discharge
Diagnosis High-Risk Diagnoses Associated With Transfer … If multiple diagnoses are in the medical record, the
diagnosis designated as “primary” will be displayed … If multiple diagnoses are in the
medical record, the diagnosis designated as “primary” will be
displayed … Active High-Risk Diagnoses.
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December 01, 2017 - Limited, Diagnosis-Specific Focus:
Heart failure, heart attack, pneumonia, COPD, hip/knee replacement … These are not the most frequent diagnoses leading to readmissions. … These are not the diagnoses with the highest rates of readmissions. … In South Carolina, the diagnosis leading to the highest number of readmissions among Medicaid adults … Focusing on those diagnoses only will not reduce hospital-wide readmission rates.
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June 01, 2023 - outpatient setting are also vulnerable to diagnostic error as the discharging teams' provisional or working diagnoses … diagnostic tests, erroneous interpretation of tests, and inappropriate consideration or prioritization of diagnoses … patient's condition and the discharge process,
A ssessing how well doctors and nurses explain the diagnosis … error across healthcare settings found that different modalities all helped reduce cognitive errors in diagnosis … pause in the ambulatory care setting, which was found to influence clinicians to modify initial working diagnoses
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August 01, 2024 - , and the second related to whether the office was informed when a missed, wrong, or delayed diagnosis … and revealed a significant gap within the institution in routinely providing specific feedback when a diagnosis … Providers document differential diagnoses when they have not ruled out other diagnoses. 70.1% 60% 10. … When a provider thinks another provider in this office/system may have missed a diagnosis, they inform … When a missed, wrong, or delayed diagnosis happens in this office, we are informed about it. 52.3% 56%
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statistics about the cost of hospital stays in the United States, including the most costly conditions (diagnoses … statistics about hospital stays in the United States, including an overview of the most frequent conditions (diagnoses … These HCUP Statistical Briefs provide statistics about mental health and substance abuse conditions (diagnoses
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-03/rinke-report.pdf
January 01, 2025 - for a different diagnosis. … a diagnosis of ‘an elevated BP.’ … , which increases as missed diagnoses decrease. … process measure
increased with depression diagnoses. … , and whether this model can
apply to other diagnoses in primary care.
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July 28, 2016 - health diagnosis
% of readmissions with a comorbid behavioral health diagnosis
All
5500
1000 … list surprising diagnoses here
Examine list of top discharge diagnoses leading to most readmissions … that merit attention: list diagnoses here
Look for sepsis, behavioral health
diagnosis
Compare … list surprising diagnoses here diagnosis
Compare and contrast the top
Examine list of top discharge … diagnoses?
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January 01, 2024 - A mismatch between treatments and diagnoses. … Diagnoses indicative of complications after a procedure. … Repeat admission that would not normally be expected for original admitting diagnosis. … diagnosis. … codes matched the diagnosis but the admission diagnosis did not include it.