We sought to identify physician, patient, encounter, and billing characteristics associated with the PPV of syndromic surveillance case definitions.
Based on findings from these studies, we sought to identify physician, patient, encounter, and billing characteristics associated with the positive predictive value (PPV) of case definitions for 5 syndromes (fever, gastrointestinal, neurological, rash, and respiratory (including influenza-like illness)).
In the main analyses, physician time since licensure, billing characteristics, and patient age, health services utilization, and Charlson comorbidity index were modelled as continuous variables, assuming the linearity of their association with the logit of the probability of the presence or absence of the syndrome in the medical chart.
In birds, positive assortative mating has been established for a variety of morphological traits, such as plumage characteristics [29] [34], bill characteristics [29], [35], [36] and body size [37], as well as age [31], [38], [39] and developmental quality [40].
Finally, the application collects metadata, such as the devices physical location, remaining battery life, billing cycle, and other environmental characteristics.
The study looked at the pre-intervention characteristics of the nurse practitioners and physician assistants, and based on billing information the average practitioner spent 53% (range 21 to 95%) of their time on patient care.
It is a subtly attractive warbler, clad in plain gray over the crown and upperparts, with a yellow face and underparts, and possesses the genus' characteristic decurved bill.
For the 50th running of the Daytona 500 this Sunday — billed with characteristic stock car understatement as "the Most Anticipated Event in Racing History" — nobody would dream of sending a driver out there with just his intuition.
Patient demographics, diagnoses, appointment history and characteristics, insurance and billing data were retrieved from scheduling and billing data collected during primary care visits occurring between January 2005 and June 2007.
We used multivariate logistic regression analyses to estimate the association between claim-chart agreement about the presence of a syndrome and physician, patient, encounter, and billing characteristics.
Contrary to the clinical archetypes and even the demographic ones, the archetypes proposed here will probably not be reused in other countries due to the special characteristics of their billing processes.
