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Appl Clin Inform
January 2025
Lifespan Information Services, Lifespan Health System, Providence, United States.
Background Reliable, precise, timely, and clear documentation of diagnoses is difficult. Poor specificity or the absence of diagnostic documentation can lead to decreased revenue and increased payor denials, audits, and queries to providers. Nuance's Dragon Medical Advisor (DMA) is a computer-assisted physician documentation (CAPD) product.
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January 2025
Metaresearch and Open Science Program, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Canada.
Peer reviewers provide a critical role in helping journals keep publishing. To understand the rewards and incentives offered to peer reviewers, we assessed what journals/publishers offered to one peer reviewer in biomedicine over a 1-month period (June 2023). After receiving 88 peer reviewer invitations, we noted that incentives were minimal.
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January 2025
Research Unit for Plastic Surgery, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
The WOUND-Q is a patient-reported outcome measure for individuals with any type of chronic wound. This study aimed to identify patient and wound factors associated with the four WOUND-Q health-related quality of life (HRQL) scales: Life impact, Psychological, Sleep, and Social. Adults with a chronic wound were recruited internationally through clinical settings between August 2018 and May 2020, and through an online platform (i.
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January 2025
Oracle, The Edge Building, Al Falak Street, Dubai Internet City, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 971 558620820.
Background: Primary health care (PHC) services face operational challenges due to high patient volumes, leading to complex management needs. Patients access services through booked appointments and walk-in visits, with walk-in visits often facing longer waiting times. No-show appointments are significant contributors to inefficiency in PHC operations, which can lead to an estimated 3%-14% revenue loss, disrupt resource allocation, and negatively impact health care quality.
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January 2025
Department of Laboratories, Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA, United States.
Background: As clinical laboratories struggle to maintain their financial footing and as patients face mounting out-of-pocket expenses for diagnostic testing, being able to perform financial analysis of laboratory stewardship efforts has become an increasingly important skill.
Content: Understanding the revenue cycle as it relates to diagnostic testing is fundamental to selecting, designing, implementing, and evaluating laboratory stewardship interventions for maximum financial return. Leveraging the data and processes driving the revenue cycle can inform informatics-based interventions (such as clinical decision support) and allow deliberate financial analyses of stewardship-focused projects.
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