Medicare Severity-Diagnosis Groups Diagnosis related groups (DRGs) have been around since the early 1980s‚ evolving over the years as a patient classification system. However‚ since October 1st‚ 2007‚ Medicare relies on the Medicare Severity-Diagnosis Group (MS-DRG) system to facilitate payments of services rendered for Medicare inpatients. The Beginning of MS-DRGs In the late 1960s‚ Yale University’s School of Management worked with Public Health to begin design and development of the DRG system
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Diagnosis Imagine you’re in a theater watching a movie‚ you are totally engrossed in this movie and you hear nothing else except that movie. Now if you had autism that whole concept flies out the window because while you hear that movie you hear the person next to you breathing and eating food‚ someone walking down the aisle‚ the little kid hitting the back of a person’s seat two rows over‚ the obnoxious guy in the top corner talking on the phone‚ the doors opening and closing‚ and the creaking
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Case I: Jeremy The diagnosis of Jeremy‚ in this case‚ is oppositional defiant disorder/ODD in a moderate level due to the symptoms being present in two settings (school and home). On his case‚ the following symptoms were evident since his preschool years: Criterion A1: He often loses temper (at school‚ he is irritable‚ with a tendency to display age-inappropriate temper tantrums). Criterion A2: He’s often touchy or easily annoyed (The least little thing upsets him‚ and then he shouts and screams
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Intellectualization 5. Devaluation 6. Passive aggression B: Predominant Current Defense level: High adaptive level William Styron has laid out a detailed description about the signs and symptoms of his illness. The concluded diagnosis is based on William Styron’s illustration and his current mental state. Styron’s symptoms have fulfilled the criteria of depressive disorder. The basic abnormality in depressive syndrome is the alteration in mood with a group of vegetative symptoms
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ALGOPHOBIA Introduction Pain is considered as the 5th vital sign. It is an important factor that affects the well being of a person. The Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary defines pain as: a) a localized physical suffering associated with bodily disorder and b) acute mental and emotional distress. Pain is an unwanted sensation by anyone‚ though pain is an important indicator that there is something wrong somewhere in your body. Defining a phobia: A phobia is a strong‚ persistent fear
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according to “the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism’s National Longitudinal Alcohol Epidemiology Survey concluded that dependence and mental illness go hand in hand” (NIH‚ pg. 1). Dual Diagnosis A person who is being “treated in a psychiatric hospital may be given a dual diagnosis” (Stevens & Smith‚ pg. 158). This
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Bacterial vaginosis‚ or simply BV‚ is a prevailing vaginal infection in women. BV is an illness that outcomes in vaginal discharge and are a consequence of overgrowth of usual bacteria in the vagina. There are numerous kinds of bacteria that live naturally in the vaginal region. The vaginal discharge results when numbers of various species of bacteria grow large such that their numbers exceed the natural balance (Bacterial Vaginosis Researchomatic). The reasons for the specific vaginal bacterial
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discusses the importance of short and long-term benefits of early autism diagnosis and intervention. Many researchers believe that autism is not necessarily a life-long disabling condition. With intervention‚ most children will be included in regular education classrooms. Research today shows fewer than 10% of individuals with ASD will remain non-verbal with intervention. Data suggests that children who are completely non-verbal who begin intervention in the preschool years or sooner are more likely
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FOCUS Clots Wai Khoon Ho Deep vein thrombosis Risks and diagnosis Venous thromboembolism (VTE)‚ comprising deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism (PE)‚ is the third commonest vascular disorder in Caucasian populations.1 In Australia‚ DVT alone (without concomitant PE) affects 52 persons per 100 000 annually.2 Timely management of DVT is important as it is a common cause of morbidity. Thromboses of the deep veins in the upper limbs and ‘unusual sites’‚ such as mesenteric veins‚ constitute
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Cancer screening or diagnosis options The treatment of any kind of disease‚ especially a group of disease like cancer is more effective when it is detected in the early stages as the chances of it getting fully cured and the overall life ratio of the patient raises manifold. With the coming of age medical treatments and breakthrough in the field of cancer research‚ there are various advanced tools and techniques which point at the screening and the diagnosis of the cancers in the early stages. Screening
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