All donor consent forms and specimen utilization procedures were approved by the Weill-Cornell Medical College Institutional Review Board. Weill-Cornell Medical College Institutional Review Board
This study was limited by issues that apply to all retrospective database analyses, including the inability to determine and account for clinical factors, and the potential for miscoding of diagnoses or resource utilization procedures.
Trends for these two procedures regarding utilization, revision procedures, and other demographic information have not been sufficiently explored.
Objective: We examined staff utilization and procedure length for percutaneous and open bedside tracheostomies in an intensive care setting Study Design: Prospective clinical outcomes study.
OBJECTIVE: We examined staff utilization and procedure length for percutaneous and open bedside tracheostomies in an intensive care setting.
For example, in Thailand there is no utilization management procedure in place to discourage or prevent early or excessive refilling of medications.
IQIs reflect procedures whose use varies significantly across hospitals or geographic areas and include measures of utilization of procedures for which there are questions of overuse, underuse, or misuse [ 23].
There is no need here to dwell on the very detailed federal requirements except to note that, if the State fails to ensure that the physician certifications and utilization review procedures are implemented for each patient in each facility, the State is subject to a loss of Medicaid funds commensurate with the extent of the failure to ensure such utilization review.
Expertise in the utilization of procedure-guided ultrasonography has become increasingly important within the field of Emergency Medicine.
An end-user database captures diagnostic-specific utilization data, procedures performed, new medication orders and outpatient pharmacy dispensings.
However, it is important to note that the choice of operative modality is, undoubtedly, multifactorial and patient/setting-specific.There is increasing use of MIS for pediatric urology procedures, although utilization rates vary among procedures.
