Be sure to elaborate on what would be considered normal and abnormal (thus requiring further medical attention). Include any special tests that might be performed to evaluate the injury (i.e. x-ray, MRI, specific joint tests, etc.). 4. Treatment: This should explain the treatment of your injury, including immediate care and chronic care.
The medical coder will need to make sure that codes are not being unbundled and the global period pertains to surgical procedures. Next the coder would need to compare the providers evaluation and management codes with the national average. When this is done patterns of fraud may be able to be seen. Using modifiers correctly is also a part of the compliance strategy. Modifiers help with duplicate billing and unbundling of codes.
Abdominal pain and abdominal cramping is caused the inflammation of the walls and eventually thickens the walls with scar tissue and leads to cramping. Mild Crohn’s causes moderate intestinal discomfort and in more severe cases, can cause nausea and vomiting. Blood in the stool is caused by food being moved from the digestive tract through the inflamed tissue. The bleeding might be notices as bright red directly in the toilet or darker red blood that is mixed into the stool. Crohn’s also causes small sores or ulcers on the surface of the intestines that eventually penetrate into the intestinal walls.
Some patients develop arthritis. Other common symptoms patients report are chest pains when taking a deep breath, fatigue, fever with no cause, general discomfort- uneasiness, or just an ill-feeling also included are hair loss, mouth sores, sensitivity to sunlight, swollen lymph nodes, and a “butterfly” rash over the cheeks and bridge of the nose affects about half of people with SLE. The rash gets worse in sunlight and may also be widespread. Other symptoms depending on which part of the body is affected include Brain and nervous system symptoms: headaches, numbness, tingling, seizures, vision problems, and personality changes. Digestive tract: symptoms are abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting.
There is the disease, which is the pathological changes that occur in one's body, and the illness which consists of the person's experience of the disease. If you only address the medical aspect of a disease and fail to consider the patient's biological/social/psychological needs, you may be overlooking factors that make the condition worse. For example, stress or depression can amplify the intensity of pain, so it is important to address the patient as a whole rather than isolate and treat the pain exclusively. From this perspective, the concept of physical pain, which is the the main source of discomfort (traditionally treated only with analgesics), has lately been approached from an enlarged perspective, a holistic one: the concept of total
Root Cause Analysis of a Case Study Alice Holliday Western Governors University Organizational Systems and Quality Leadership RTT1 Root Cause Analysis of a Case Study Healthcare presents numerous opportunities for patients to be helped by healthcare personnel. Unfortunately, there are also numerous opportunities for patients to be failed by healthcare personnel. When patients are failed by healthcare personnel, it is required by the Joint Commission for hospitals to carry out a Root Cause Analysis in order to understand the systems within the organization that failed so that improvements can be made and the failures can be prevented from happening in the future. (Cherry & Jacob, 2011) This paper will describe how a Root Cause Analysis (RCA) can be used following the death of a patient, and how Change Theory and Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) can be utilized to come up with ways to prevent the failure from being repeated. A. Root Cause Analysis A Root Cause Analysis is an organized process used to determine the processes that lead to sentinel events.
The first factor when diagnosing Don with emphysema would be the shortness of breath. A person with emphysema normally experiences episodes of decreased airflow. This is due to the over-inflated alveoli that are not exchanging gases when a person breathes, due to little or no movement of gases out of the alveoli. The increased BP and respiratory rate show in the test that Dr. Murphy ordered show that Don has two big symptoms that could conclude he has emphysema. With this knowledge Dr. Murphy could easily notice that Don had underlying emphysema.
I.e. the Kokoda trail. Symptoms include rapid onset of fever, severe headache, joint and muscle pain, metallic taste in mouth, diarrhoea, loss of appetite, vomiting, abdominal pain, extreme fatigue, minor bleeding in the nose or gums, and various rashes. Dysentery is caught and passed through contaminated food and water, as the troops had a lack of clean food and water, they had to compromise by drinking from muddy puddles and creeks. “The Symptoms of this disease are pus and mucus in faeces, brutal abdominal cramps, nausea, fever, and diarrhoea” (http://health.ninemsn.com.au/family/familyhealth/689888/what-is-dysentery).
It is expensive and has serious side effects. It must be administered intravenously because it is ineffective if given PO (http://goapic.org/MRSA.htm). Vancomycin is metabolized by the liver and excreted by the kidneys. Each individual metabolizes differently and this may be further compounded by disease, illness, age and sex, so trough levels need to be monitored to prevent toxicity and/or damage to major organs (Williams & Hopper, 2007 pg 105). There is fear that further mutation will cause resistance to all currently available antibiotics, including Vancomycin.
Abnormal Psychology Lisa Mac Donald-Clark PSY/410 December 19, 2011 Mark Hurd Abnormal Psychology Abnormal psychology, also known as psychopathology, is the branch of psychology that deals with abnormal behaviors and mental illness (Hansell & Damour, (2008). Although psychopathology is a fascinating field of study it can be equally challenging, covering a broad range of disorders, illnesses, and symptoms. Defining abnormal psychology also poses a challenge. The fundamental concept of abnormal would seem simple in that it would include anything that falls outside of what societies considers normal. Narrowing the group association is essential in defining the behavior as normal or abnormal.