The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) recently published a study demonstrating that, between 2015 through 2021, codes designed to specify inflammatory arthritis...Read More »
Q: A 64-year-old female bilateral lung transplant recipient presents with aspiration pneumonia, hypoxia, and has immunosuppression from the drugs. How would this scenario be reported in ICD-10-CM?
A: Sequenced correctly, the scenario...Read More »
Piperacillin-tazobactam, one of the antibiotics most frequently prescribed in an empirical regiment for sepsis, was associated with a higher mortality rate and increased duration in organ dysfunction compared with cefepime for adults hospitalized with suspected sepsis, according to...Read More »
In the United States, preventable premature mortality showed higher rates among individuals living in rural areas than those living in urban areas, and that divide seems to be growing, according to a recent CDC...Read More »
Mental health disorders among people experiencing homelessness has a current prevalence of 67% and a lifetime prevalence of 77%, according to an analysis published in JAMA Psychiatry. The most common...Read More »
Q: A patient was admitted for acute hypercapnic respiratory failure (AHRF) and acute heart failure with preserved ejection fraction exacerbation, hypertension, thought to be secondary to untreated obesity hypoventilation syndrome/obstructive sleep apnea (OHS/OSA) with improvement in...Read More »
