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"The crowner hath sat on her and finds it Christian burial." [Hamlet]

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

" [Coroners Society] King Richard I (the Lionheart) needed vast sums of money for the Third Crusade, operation of the kingdom, and for his ransom fro m Duke Leopold of Austria. All efforts to identify the decedent by hospital staff, law enforcement agencies or social service agencies should be well documented in the medical records.

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The Latest in Critical Care, 3/11/24 (Issue #33)

PulmCCM

About 544,000 99292 codes were billed to CMS in 2021, according to ACCP , reportedly stable at about 10% of the total bills. Ascension is a $27 billion, 140-hospital conglomerate operating in 19 states—the third largest system in the U.S There was no difference in rate of discharge to hospice (6.8%

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