Ambulatory care is a medical service on outpatient basis. Ambulatory care includes delivery of medical service outside hospital settings. These services include consultation, laboratory tests and screening, treatment, intervention, and rehabilitation services. Ambulatory care can be provided at clinics, emergency centres, health camps and telemedicine.
Conditions that can be given ambulatory care includes COPD, asthma, diabetes, hypertension, hypo/hyperthyroidism, simple fractures, dental problems.
Acute care involves providing medical services to a patient on a short basis for severe injury or illness, acute conditions. It may require hospital stay or may be given through ambulatory care. Conditions requiring acute care are cardiac conditions, neonatal diseases, intensive care.
differences between Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set (UHDDS) and the Uniform Ambulatory Care Data Set (UACDS)
A(n) ________ is NOT considered an ambulatory care setting. Question 1 options: surgical center acute care hospital urgent care center chiropractic clinic dental clinic
Explain the continuum of care across acute, ambulatory, mental health, long term care, rehab, and home health facilities.
1) what are the similarities and differences between inpatient and ambulatory records? Why do the differences exist?
With the proliferation of EHRs within acute and ambulatory care systems, how much of this survey activity do you think can be folded in under routine data collection and exchange activities?
Compare and contrast ambulatory and acute care EHR systems. (Organize your information in an easy-to-read format such as a chart or bulleted list)
what is the differences between acute and chronic pain including the what causes the pain, nociception, assessment differences between the two, differences in treatments of the two and why.
Ambulatory Patient Classification (APC) is a system for reimbursing acute care facilities for outpatient services, which was developed because of success of DRGs. Provide a response to the following: 1. As it relates to APC's, define the term packaging. 2. As it relates to APC's, define the term discounting. 3. Define the following APC status indicators: A, C, G, H, and T. 4. As it relates to APC's, define the term pass-through items. 5. Explain the Medicare payment determination process...
what problems arise in an acute care facility in distinguishing between an outpatient and an inpatient?
Discuss three settings for ambulatory care in the U.S. What kind of care is delivered in each? Who are the health care providers in the settings you have chosen?