Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Remote ICD deactivation for patients receiving hospice care was successful in a small feasibility study.

This study examines the validity of using ICD-10 codes to identify hospitalized pneumonia cases. Using a case-cohort design, subjects were randomly selected from monthly cohorts of patients aged ⩾65 ...

Researchers compared billing codes from electronic health records to accurately quantify how many skin cancers patients had. Despite keratinocyte cancers being the most common malignant neoplasms ...

An article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on June 23 points to a low rate of ICD implantation in elderly patients who have suffered a heart attack, although ICD use is ...

asthma icd-10 codes The new ICD-10 coding system may seem inappropriate for some disease models, but asthma care may benefit from the required changes. The new ICD-10 codes are fully implemented, and ...

Sudden cardiac death in elderly patients with recent myocardial infarction and reduced left ventricular ejection fraction can be substantially reduced using implantable cardioverter–defibrillators ...

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From erroneous medical bills to denied health services, Americans may need patience grappling with insurance claims beginning today, the much-anticipated launch of tens of thousands of new ...

Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) use is associated with reduced short- and long-term mortality in patients with heart failure, according to late breaking research presented in a Hot Line ...

heart ecg For patients with symptomatic systolic heart failure not caused by coronary artery disease, an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) does not reduce the risk of all-cause mortality, ...

Longer-term results of the DANISH trial confirm what was seen 4 years earlier: an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) does not reduce the risk of all-cause or CV mortality in patients with ...

Hypokalemia and even low-normal plasma potassium levels increase the risk of ventricular arrhythmias among patients with cardiovascular disease. An assessment of a strategy of actively increasing ...