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Allegations in malpractice claims against emergency physicians (EPs) involving missed acute myocardial infarctions (AMIs) are often related to the failure to diagnose.
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This long-term epidemiological study shows an association between glaucoma and Alzheimer's disease.
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Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, consisting of the triad of mental status changes, ocular motility abnormalities, and ataxia, in the setting of thiamine deficiency, remains a clinical diagnosis.
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Hyperkalemic periodic paralysis has now been well characterized clinically, physiologically, and genetically.
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An outbreak of fungal meningitis and paraspinal infections occurred over the past year due to contaminated methylprednisolone injections.
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Subjects with Lesch-Nyhan disease and Lesch-Nyhan variant have significant reductions in brain size in the basal ganglia as well as several cortical areas.
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Case managers are working long hours and most get only cost-of-living raises.
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Mountain State Health Alliance opened a free heart failure clinic after determining that patients' inability to get a timely follow-up appointment and financial issues were the cause of many readmissions.
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When hospitals determine after discharge that a patient did not meet inpatient criteria, they can file a provider liable claim using Condition Code W2 and be reimbursed for all services as if the patient were an outpatient, according to Deborah Hale, CCS, CCDS.
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At The Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, pharmacists are part of a multidisciplinary team and see many patients in person starting on Day 1.