As patient care continues to move from inpatient to outpatient settings, hospitals are mobilizing for change. The March 2016 Medicare Payment Advisory Commission Report to the Congress: Medicare ...
Whether Obamacare or Trumpcare, we expect that there will continue to be substantial movement from the inpatient to outpatient arena. (A) The movement to outpatient care has been gradual but ...
The care transition period between inpatient psychiatric hospitalization and initiation of outpatient mental health services is a time of extraordinarily heightened suicide risk that has been woefully ...
A new study published in Clinical Spine Surgery compares outpatient single-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion to inpatient cases. Study authors examined data from the Nationwide Surgical ...
The trend towards ambulatory surgery for procedures previously limited to the inpatient setting is well established. [6,7,8,9,10,11] Trends in spinal surgery towards less invasive approaches and ...
A literature review, published in Orthopedic Reviews, compared associated costs for outpatient orthopedic surgeries that are traditionally performed as inpatient procedures. Researchers examined 3,412 ...
“It's Rougher on Me Than It Is on Him”: Family Caregiver–Generated and Prioritized Illness Concerns While Patients Undergo Cancer Treatments Despite these innovations, gaps in the literature remain.
Shared inpatient-outpatient EHRs increased telemedicine and lab test follow-ups, reducing in-person visits for diabetes patients post-discharge. No significant change in 30-day ED visits or ...
Two recent reports regarding use of telehealth paint a mixed view of the technlogy’s progress in the healthcare industry. While adoption of telehealth is on the rise since 2017 for inpatients ...
CHICAGO — Results presented at the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons Annual Meeting showed significantly lower costs related to outpatient total shoulder arthroplasty when compared with inpatient ...
The uneven recovery may prompt revenue cycle leaders to reevaluate their resource allocation. Outpatient, emergency, and inpatient hospital visit volumes continue to trend upward, but at a rate that ...