Determined to achieve meaningful use of electronic health records (EHR), hospitals and health systems will increasingly adopt clinical information technology between now and 2015. This is certainly a ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Carol Leaman had every reason to believe she had been admitted to a local hospital while having difficulty breathing. But when the 78-year-old Lakewood resident got her hospital bill ...

The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) has launched the Qatar Patient Safety Classification as part of its strategic ...

The ability to understand, control, manage, regulate, and reimburse nursing home care has been hampered by the inavailability of a classification system of long-term care patients. A study of 1,469 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The authors describe a unique system for matching patient care requirements with appropriate time allowances and skill levels of nursing ...

With increasing numbers of patients presenting at our nation’s already oversubscribed emergency departments (EDs) for mental healthcare, the Psychiatric Times recently posed a pointed question: Just ...

It has been called the most significant innovation in US medical financing since the Second World War. Introduced in 1983, the Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRGs) system for classifying patients gave ...

This article explores the congruence between payer patient assignment and quality performance and the implications for incentive payments in alternative payment models. Objectives: To assess the ...

Correspondence to Dr John E Kuhn, Chief of Shoulder Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Vanderbilt Sports Medicine, 3200 MCE South Tower, 1215 21st Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37232, USA; j ...

Determined to achieve meaningful use of electronic health records (EHR), hospitals and health systems will increasingly adopt clinical information technology between now and 2015. This is certainly a ...