Disease relevance of Episode of Care

• When the entire episode of care is considered, the optimal therapy for malignant pleural effusions appears to be tube thoracostomy followed by intrapleural bleomycin [1].
• Application of the HOAC II: an episode of care for a patient with low back pain [2].
• METHODS: We conducted a retrospective analysis of data obtained from the US Renal Data System to determine lengths of stay and Medicare paid costs for index hospitalizations and episodes of care for patients with ESRD hospitalized with septicemia caused by S aureus [3].

High impact information on Episode of Care

• CONCLUSIONS: There was no significant difference in the overall cost for the 3-month episode of care for patients treated with either enoxaparin or unfractionated heparin [4].
• Our results indicate that benzodiazepine users were significantly (p less than .01) more likely than nonusers to experience (1) at least one accident-related episode of care; (2) a greater number of accident-related hospital admissions; and (3) a greater number of accident-related inpatient days [5].
• METHODS: We identified a cohort of 10,262 New Jersey Medicaid/Medicare/PAAD (Pharmacy Assistance for the Aged and the Disabled) beneficiaries with at least one episode of care for RA between January 1, 1992, and January 1, 1995, and at least one episode of care after December 31, 1995 [6].
• The results suggest that Prospective Payment System (PPS) prompted a reduction in the proportion of Medicare patients that were discharged, for whom the hospital considered the episode of care to be completed [7].
• Analysis of episodes of care in a perfluorooctanesulfonyl fluoride production facility [8].

Gene context of Episode of Care

• RESULTS: The January 1 - December 31, 2000 baseline Medicare claims for the January 1, 2001 prevalence cohort were provided to HTPN by TMF in October 2001, representing a ten-month lag in the ability of Quality Improvement Organizations to provide Part B data relative to a specific episode of care time frame [9].
• This clinical audit arose from research (Lockhart et al. 1997) which suggested timescales for the care episodes of diagnostically related groups of dysphonic clients, where SLT was directed at targeting the parameters of voice production most requiring change [10].
• In treating low-to-moderately resource-intensive conditions, the results of this episode-of-care study showed that the POS system of care (gate-keeper in place) was no more efficient than the PPO system of care (no gatekeeper mechanism) in terms of overall medical costs [11].
• Although section-100 (S-100) drugs incurred a high cost (640 dollars) per episode of care, there were only 41 episodes where S-100 drugs (expensive, restricted drugs) were used, and the total cost of S-100 drugs was only 3.7% of the total cost to the hospital [12].
• SETTING: All NHS hospitals in England. DATA SET: All post-neonatal deaths occurring in English NHS hospitals during financial year 1999-2000, with episodes of care in the previous three years determined through matching on sex, date of birth, and postcode [13].

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