Emergency Medicine Journal

AUGUST 23, 2023

Background NHS 111 is a phone and online urgent care triage and assessment system that aims to reduce UK ED demand. In 2020, 111 First was introduced to triage patients before entry to the ED and to offer direct booking for patients needing ED or urgent care into same-day arrival time slots.

Emergency Department 75

Emergency Department Urgent Care Documentation/Coding Patient Safety 75

ACEP Now

JANUARY 4, 2025

A typical shift when he was starting out would include patients falling into what was coded as 1350 major medical/trauma, 1060 minor medical/trauma, or 1050 medical walk-in. He is also familiar with the delayed care and crowding, including boarding issues, that occur.

Forensics 52

Forensics Urgent Care Hospitals Emergency Department 52

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JANUARY 5, 2024

Written by Willy Frick A 46 year old man with a history of type 2 diabetes mellitus presented to urgent care with complaint of "chest burning." The documentation does not describe any additional details of the history. They also documented "Reproducible chest tenderness." The following ECG was obtained.

EKG/ECG 120

EKG/ECG Burns Urgent Care Documentation/Coding 120

EMDocs

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Exam is normal except for tenderness as documented in the diagram. She never had a documented abdominal exam. I just failed to document it. An ARNP is able to care for DKA. The EP documented seeing the patient and agreed with the ARNP’s plan. If you take a history or examine a body part, document it.

Documentation/Coding 97

Documentation/Coding Hospitals Sepsis Infectious Diseases 97

Mind The Bleep

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Behind the scenes, this entry is assigned a clinical code (such as a SNOMED CT code) so it can be recognised as a blood pressure value by any health record software worldwide if the record should ever be exported there. Some clinicians might have an interest in coding and software development (also known as clinicians who code ).

Documentation/Coding 59

Documentation/Coding Telemedicine Urgent Care Operations 59

EMDocs

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Document a risk and benefit discussion with the patient regarding empiric anticoagulation, perhaps even including the HAS-BLED score in the documentation [10]. It is paramount to make sure this approach is agreed upon in your ED or urgent care and that there is a clear pathway before implementing a similar strategy.

Ultrasounds 96

Ultrasounds Documentation/Coding Wellness EMS 96

Taming the SRU

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Six days prior, the patient was evaluated at an urgent care and prescribed doxycycline and prednisone. CONCLUSION While growing, the current literature documenting the utilization of POCUS in evaluation of orbital and periorbital infections is minimal.

Ultrasounds 52

Ultrasounds Urgent Care Emergency Department Documentation/Coding 52