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Inpatient Versus Observation Status is a convenient, pocket-sized guide that equips admitting providers, utilization review specialists, and case managers to determine a patient’s admission status quickly, easily, and effectively.
This pocket-sized guide contains tables and generally accepted guidelines equipping practitioners who admit patients to assign an admission status and document with confidence. Each topic is usually covered on a single page, with an accompanying chart on the facing page, allowing for quick decision-making of the patient's admission status (inpatient versus observation).
By matching clinical findings with criteria charts, you are able to quickly and easily determine if a patient is appropriate for inpatient or observation admission status. In addition, by providing tips for documentation you are able to write the correct admission orders, avoiding the headaches of time-consuming changes later, penalties, and/or loss of revenue.
Areas covered include:
- Admission Orders and Statuses
- Medical
- Cardiology
- Pulmonology
- Hematology/Oncology
- Nephrology
- Gastroenterology
- Endocrinology
- Immunology
- Infectious Diseases
- Surgical
- Elective Surgeries
- Perinatal
- Pediatric
- Denial
This pocket-sized guide is ideal for physicians, medical students, interns, residents, nurse practitioners (NP), physician assistants (PAs), dentists (DDS), utilization review (UR), case managers (CM), and anyone else responsible for assigning the correct admission status.
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