2013年11月1日 · Also known as clinical decision units, “obs” units, or short-stay observation units, these hospital-based units lend themselves as a feasible solution. Many of the COU success stories come from “chest pain” units, along with ED-based observation units.

2013年11月1日 · Length of stay, work-relative value units, hospital-acquired infections. There is no shortage of metrics—and their accompanying acronyms—that silo, summarize, and study whether hospitalists are...

2013年11月1日 · Length of stay, work-relative value units, hospital-acquired infections. There is no shortage of metrics—and their accompanying acronyms—that silo, summarize, and study whether hospitalists are...

2013年11月1日 · Length of stay, work-relative value units, hospital-acquired infections. There is no shortage of metrics—and their accompanying acronyms—that silo, summarize, and study whether hospitalists are...

In August 2005, we introduced a hospitalist‐run observation unit, the Clinical Decision Unit (CDU), at University Hospital, the primary teaching affiliate of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (San Antonio, TX).

2018年9月14日 · How should a change in status from observation to full admission affect coding (i.e., when this occurs, what should the appropriate coding be for the initial hospital day or for the second hospital day)?

2019年9月17日 · Observation is basically considered a billing method implemented by payers to decrease dollars paid to acute care hospitals for inpatient care. It pertains to admission status, not to the level of care provided in the hospital.

2019年2月21日 · In this manuscript, “observation stay” refers to an observation hospital stay, and “event” refers to a hospitalization that may include inpatient and/or outpatient (observation) services and ORC codes. Status Change

2013年8月2日 · In that same study, the authors discovered that only 12 of 31 (39%) freestanding children’s hospitals had a designated observation unit. Many hospitals reported that observation patients were scattered across the ED and inpatient units (e.g. “virtual” observation unit).

2012年10月1日 · Major Finding: Dedicated observation units for emergency department patients deemed unsafe to discharge could result in savings of more than $3 billion nationally or $4.6 million per hospital thanks to avoided admissions.