Last week, we looked at Diagnosis-Related Groups and how they receive codes based on cost and complexity. These numbers play a key role in the...
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Did everyone notice the uptick in respiratory illnesses (including COVID) that started about a week and a half after Thanksgiving? Many of us might...
The Case-Mix Index (CMI) has been defined in many ways. One definition might read "a relative value assigned to a diagnostic-related group." Another...
Ambulatory health care facilities, such as outpatient surgery and diagnostic centers, face new regulations requiring the active presence of an...
No profession knows more about disease transmission than those working in infection control and prevention. And yet, due to a complex network of...
Among all tracked hospital-associated infections, the one that seems to have the lowest rates are surgical site infections. While this relative...
Crime scene investigators use many tools to figure out the events leading up to a crime, how the crime was committed, and how to apprehend the...
On a fall day in 1928, a window was left open in a London laboratory, letting in a cool breeze. Carried on that breeze were microscopic spores of...
For those of us who live where winters can be cold, we may be finding ourselves wrapping ourselves up more as we go out, bundling up to stay cozy...
Polymerase Chain Reaction, or PCR, allows us to quickly identify a pathogen from a small sample. This rapid identification is a helpful change from...
One of the most universally-recognized impacts from the colonization of North and South America is the horrific de-population of indigenous peoples...
While prevention is always the goal when it comes to a hospital-acquired infection, rapid diagnosis is essential to better outcomes. The sooner the...