Among patients with emergency department (ED) visits with the same presenting complaint as those with visits ultimately given a primary care-treatable diagnosis based on the ED discharge diagnosis, a ...

Researchers found that 13.3% of the 2,383,899 hospitalizations received an initial or discharge diagnosis and treatment of pneumonia. HealthDay News — Discordant diagnoses from initial presentation to ...

Visits to the emergency room are not always for true medical emergencies – and some policymakers have been fighting the problem by denying or limiting payments if the patient’s diagnosis upon ...

According to a cross-sectional study, altered mental status accounted for 3.1% of emergency department (ED) visits in the US, and the most common discharge diagnosis was nonspecific symptoms or signs ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An initial diagnosis of pneumonia was not seen in 33.4% of those with a discharge diagnosis and positive ...

We developed an early warning discharge disposition prediction tool to facilitate discharge planning and coordination, potentially reducing length of hospital stay and improving patient experience.

Emergency departments in the United States have more than 140 million visits each year - a rate of four visits for every 10 people - that cost nearly $80 billion. Each interaction is carefully ...

An AI-based analysis of over 2 million hospital visits has found that most of the time, a pneumonia diagnosis made in the hospital will change from a patient's entrance to their discharge -- either ...