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14 Mar 2009, 7:00 am
Gustin, MD, MPH, FAAEM, writes: Potential limitations should be recognized and dealt with such as the possibility that a particular standard becomes obsolete because of new discoveries or advances; or situations where environmental factors such as disaster, overcrowding, or multiple high acuity emergencies negate the applicability of standard clinical policies. [read post]
3 Oct 2008, 3:00 am
What is the patient acuity on this floor (how sick are the other patients by comparison)? [read post]
2 May 2023, 7:43 am
Socialization is crucial to maintaining our mental acuity. [read post]
8 Jun 2011, 7:24 am
Wounds in the eye increase risk of infection and may result in symptoms such as pain and decreased visual acuity. [read post]
14 Nov 2011, 7:45 am
Low staffed facilities are unable to encourage residents to remain as independent as possible and to encourage participation in activities intended to promote in mental acuity and physical health. [read post]
14 Aug 2014, 8:04 am
Many studies have shown that people who stay intellectually engaged throughout life are more likely to maintain their mental acuity. [read post]
2 Jul 2019, 8:00 am
While most are satisfying that mandate, three-fourths of nursing homes were almost never in compliance with what the CMS expected their RN staffing levels to be based on residents’ acuity, suggesting that measure should be updated, researchers said. [read post]
23 Aug 2011, 2:47 pm
This trend toward 'aging in place' makes it inevitable that a higher proportion of residents in a given community will face challenges such as loss of strength, coordination and mental acuity over time, or will be diagnosed with a catastrophic illness. [read post]
10 Dec 2018, 7:07 pm
They spoke of the wide-ranging possibilities; that computers might match or even exceed human intelligence and capabilities on tasks such as complex decision-making, reasoning and learning, sophisticated analytics and pattern recognition, visual acuity, speech recognition and language translation. [read post]
31 Mar 2011, 10:05 am
He must now endure daily eye pain and headaches, diminished vision, uncorrected visual acuity, and visual distortions. [read post]
9 Sep 2012, 9:06 am
By eschewing celebratory homage in favor of tough-minded honesty, he addresses the hardest questions about representativeness and “racial authenticity” with an acuity and freshness that resonate forward to the present day. [read post]
21 Feb 2019, 4:22 am
” In announcing the model, CMS noted that because Medicare regulations now only allow payment for emergency ground ambulance services for transportation to hospitals, critical access hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and dialysis centers, most Medicare beneficiaries with a medical emergency who call 911 are transported to hospital emergency departments (ED), even if a lower-acuity destination would meet the individual’s needs. [read post]
2 Apr 2020, 1:11 pm
The hospital believed such medications could compromise her mental acuity, a job requirement. [read post]
13 May 2015, 10:34 am
Besides evidencing a child’s school performance, these records may contain teacher remarks about the child mental acuity before an injury. [read post]
12 Dec 2018, 6:30 am
He said, “Medcor Telemed is an early intervention opportunity to guide low- and moderate-acuity injuries onto the right path to recovery and to jumpstart the claims management process. [read post]
16 Nov 2011, 8:26 pm
We recommend seeing your eye doctor once a year because the test they give at the department of licensing only tests for visual acuity and can not always detect vision problems that only occur after dark. [read post]
11 May 2011, 11:00 am
"Substantial visual acuity gains may be accomplished with a lower treatment burden. [read post]
10 Mar 2010, 5:55 am
The legal standard for legal blindness is visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the better eye with the use of a correcting lens. [read post]
18 Dec 2009, 7:01 am
The hospital has a system whereby patients of lesser acuity, in the judgment of the triage nurse, are to be treated by mid level practitioners which include nurse practitioners and physician's assistants, and those patients of greater acuity are to be treated by medical doctors. [read post]
10 Apr 2023, 7:32 am
Social Security defines legal blindness as having a visual acuity of 20/200 or less in their better eye with correction or a field of vision that is less than 20 degrees in the better eye. [read post]
