Publications by authors named "Jeffrey Linzer"
Background: The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) has been grouping the allergic and hypersensitivity disorders involving the respiratory tract under topographic distribution, regardless of the underlying mechanisms, triggers or concepts currently in use for allergic and hypersensitivity conditions. In order to strengthen awareness and deliberate the creation of the new "Allergic or hypersensitivity disorders involving the respiratory tract" section of the ICD-11, we here propose make the building process public.
Methods: The new frame has been constructed to cover the gaps previously identified and was based on consensus academic reports and ICD-11 principles.
Article Synopsis
- - The Medicare Resource-Based Relative Value Scale (RBRVS) is the main way that most U.S. payers determine physician payments, influencing both public and private compensation systems.
- - Many healthcare practices, especially large ones, use RBRVS to measure physician productivity which can impact how much doctors are paid.
- - There are concerns that RUC surveys used to value services may undervalue nonprocedural services, prompting the American Academy of Pediatrics to advocate for fair evaluations to ensure pediatricians are appropriately compensated.
Background: Cardiac MRI has become widespread to characterize cardiac lesions in children. No study has examined the role of deep sedation performed by non-anesthesiologists for this investigation.
Objective: We hypothesized that deep sedation provided by non-anesthesiologists can be provided with a similar safety and efficacy profile to general anesthesia provided by anesthesiologists.
Objective: The study aims to assess medication adherence and asthma management behaviors and their modifiable predictors in low-income children with persistent asthma.
Methods: The authors conducted a cohort study of 143 children ages 6 to 11 prescribed a daily inhaled controller medicine that could be electronically monitored. Children were recruited from clinics or the emergency department of an urban children's hospital.
Survey of academic pediatric emergency departments regarding use of evaluation and management codes.
Pediatr Emerg Care
September 2005
Objective: The aims of the study were to determine the frequency at which each emergency medicine evaluation and management (E/M) code is used, to identify factors associated with their use by academic pediatric emergency departments (PEDs), and to compare PED E/M code utilization rates with rates reported by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for general emergency departments (EDs).
Method: A 24-question survey was sent to 42 academic PED medical directors. Questions pertained to PED demographics, physician staff, records/documentation, billing education, and E/M coding data for 1 year.