March 7th, 2013
Hospitals Are Seeing Rapidly Growing Numbers of Adults with Congenital Heart Disease
Larry Husten, PHD
Hospitals are treating increasing numbers of adults with congenital heart disease, thanks to tremendous progress in treatment for this condition in recent decades. A clear picture of this dramatic change emerges in a new study, presented at the ACC in San Francisco and published simultaneously in JAMA. Jared O’Leary and colleagues analyzed data from the Nationwide […]
March 1st, 2012
The Growing Number of Observation Stays: How Do You Decide?
Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, SM
The number of observation stays are growing in this country, in part as a response to Medicare audits that are disallowing admissions for some patients – and maybe in part to reduce crowding in the Emergency Medicine Department. The problem is that criteria are not clear, so there is likely a lot of variability across […]
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