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of perforation peritonitis remain the mainstay of treatment. The purpose of study was to indentify the effect of early surgery on postoperative outcomes in patients with perforation peritonitis. Material and Methods A retrospective medical report of 200 patients who underwent exploratory laparotomy and proceed for perforation peritonitis from July 2014 to June 2016 was evaluated. Patients were divided into two groups based on the time of surgery…

review, drug dosage adjustments. MTM is also said to be positively affecting costs, quality of care and patient safety. Electronic Prior Authorization (EPA) is now being practiced. There are two types of prior authorization, retrospective and prospective. In retrospective, a pharmacy can obtain PA after an initial rejection of a claim. In prospective, ePA is prescriber-initiated and the prescription is temporarily pended and a request is sent to the payer for the criteria. “In 2010, 38,300…

One reason is that a corporation maintains a capital stock account, additional paid-in capital accounts, and a retained earnings account. “Net income or loss becomes part of retained earnings, and dividends are always paid equally to all shareholders of a particular class of stock” (Bline, Fischer, & Skekel, 2004, Chapter 7). Corporations are also able to reacquire some of its own equity interest in the form of treasury stock. Other advantages of establishing a subsidiary as a corporation are…

On November 9, 2016 many United States citizens woke up to the shocking news that their next president would be Donald Trump, someone that countless people thought was a complete and utter joke of a candidate until he actually did the unthinkable and won. Soon after the election, many of the large polling services that predicted the incorrect outcome were quick to point to the obvious increase in turnout from the rural sections of America, specifically the Rust Belt states Michigan, Wisconsin,…

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Pulmonary cryptococcosis typically occurs in immunocompromised patients, such as those with human immunodeficiency virus / acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS). Its presence in HIV/AIDS patients is associated with higher mortality [1]. Pulmonary cryptococcal infections have been reported in nonimmunocompromised hosts, including non-AIDS patients [1, 2] and children [3]. Due to advances in the diagnosis and widespread use of broad-spectrum antibiotics, immunosuppressants, glucocorticoids…

In the elderly, COPD is a common chronic condition that affects many patients’ quality of life. It also carries a burden in the United States, with a total cost of $29.5 billion in 2010.1 Accordingly, exacerbations could be a major contribution to the excess cost. An association between rates of COPD exacerbations and the use of cholinesterase inhibitors was researched in a report entitled “COPD Exacerbation and Cholinesterase Therapy in Dementia Patients.” Thus, the rate of exacerbations in…

CMS Model 2 Retrospective Payment Bundling Strategy The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief explanation of the components of the retrospective payment bundling consistent with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Model 2 for a 90 day period post-discharge for community acquired pneumonia (CAP) patients. Additional focuses will be placed on health care services needed across the continuum for the bundle payment to be successful. Further emphases will be positioned on the…

Numerous factors, including small sample size (76 mothers), little racial diversity (78% White or African American), little economic diversity (many mothers had a low socioeconomic status), enrollment in a parent-training program, and reliance on retrospective reporting, make it difficult to ascertain what populations these findings may be applicable to (Knox, Rosenberger, Sarwar, Mangewala, & Klag, 2015, p. 398). Despite these limitations, this study can serve as a foundation for future…

Beneficial effects of the beta adrenergic antagonists in the treatment of the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. It is not uncommon for the patients to present with two or more disease states at the same time. Thus, the management of such concomitant disease states may be pharmacologically challenging as it is, for example, in the treatment of the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and hypertension (HTN) with a compelling indication of the post-myocardial infarction (post-MI).…