Medicare changes to the hospital inpatient prospective payment systems: Commentary on the implications for the hospital-based wound care clinician

Journal of Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 61-62

  Krapfl, Lee Ann ^a   MacKey, Dianne ^b  

^a Mercy Medical Center   (United States)

^b KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECUBITUS; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; DOCUMENTATION; ECONOMICS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MEDICARE; NOTE; NURSE; NURSING; NURSING STAFF; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT; SKIN CARE; UNITED STATES;

DATA COLLECTION; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; DOCUMENTATION; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MEDICARE; NURSE CLINICIANS; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; PRESSURE ULCER; PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT SYSTEM; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SKIN CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 38349025847     PISSN: 10715754     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.WON.0000303460.90732.7d     Document Type: Note

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1. Federal Register, Part. II. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Medicare program; Changes to the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems and Fiscal Year 2008 Rates Final Rule. http://www.cms.hhs.gov/AcuteInpatientPPS/IPPS/itemdetail. asp?itemID=CMS120396. Accessed August 22, 2007.
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