Acute care bundling can benefit patients, providers AND payers
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Action for Better HealthcarePosted
Wed 11 Nov 2009 10:01pm
By Rick Norling
Retired CEO Premier healthcare alliance
Innovative efforts at Geisinger Health System to re-engineer care have led to an exciting concept called acute care bundling.
The boundaries of acute care have typically been admission and discharge processes at hospitals. However, the opportunity for process improvement and the elimination
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Acute leukemia quiz
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pathologystudentPosted
Fri 20 Nov 2009 10:02pm
Another quiz – this time on acute leukemia. Answers and explanations are in the first comment following this post.
1. Patients with which of the following leukemias may go into DIC if given routine chemotherapeutic agents?
A. Acute promonocytic leukemia
B. Acute promyelocytic leukemia
C. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia
D. Chronic myeloid
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Left Ventricular Aneurysm or Anterior Acute STEMI?
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Stephen SmithPosted
Wed 12 Jan 2011 11:35am
I am simply going to post a link to a nice presentation of this at the ems12lead.com blog by Tom Bouthillet.
http://ems12lead.com/2011/01/12/left-ventricular-aneurysm-vs-acute-anterior-stemi/
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Acute Kidney Injury Predisposes ...
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Dr. Rubens D.Posted
Sun 23 Nov 2008 3:57amAcute Kidney Injury Predisposes Elderly to Organ Failure
By Crystal Phend
MINNEAPOLIS, 23 nov 2008 -- Older adults who suffer an acute injury... chronic kidney problems were 13 times more likely to develop ESRD than those who had not suffered an acute kidney injury (95% confidence interval 10.6 to 16.0), according to Allan J
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