St. Louis, MO June 25, 2007 – Pneumonia evaluation MedicalTemplate published
MedicalTemplates has introduced a Pneumonia Evaluation medical note template. This MedicalTemplate is a fillable Adobe PDF with editable text fields and working checkboxes to streamline clinical documentation for the evaluation of patients with known or suspected pneumonia in both ambulatory and inpatient settings.
Statistics from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services show pneumonia to be the eighth leading cause of death in the United States, causing about 90,000 deaths per year. Each year pneumonia affects 4 million Americans, is responsible for 1 million hospital admissions, and results in 10 billion dollars in health care costs. The overall mortality rate of pneumonia is 13 percent, and is influenced by factors such as age, living in a nursing home, or having cardiac or renal disease. The large numbers of people affected by pneumonia and the associated health care costs make pneumonia care a focus for many health care quality improvement initiatives.
The Pneumonia Evaluation MedicalTemplate can assist healthcare providers to thoroughly evaluate patients with pneumonia and meet the quality standards for many of quality improvement initiatives, including the new Medicare Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI). Documentation prompters for three PQRI quality measures are included in this medical note template.
This MedicalTemplate includes the pneumonia severity index (PSI) which was developed by an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality-funded multidisciplinary research team called the Pneumonia Patient Outcomes Research Team (PORT). This reliable and well tested decision support tool can assist physicians in determining if a pneumonia patient should be treated at home or in a hospital.
The Pneumonia Evaluation MedicalTemplate contains prompters for ascertaining different symptoms associated with pneumonia, such as dyspnea, chest pain, pleuritic pain, cough, fever, chills, nightsweats, and hemoptysis. Other prompters help identify patients who are at higher risk of aspiration pneumonia, multi-drug resistant infections, or infections due to less common causes including fungus, legionella, SARS, avian influenza, tuberculosis, and other microbes. Questions to document smoking history, drug abuse (both prescription and street drugs), and alcohol abuse are included to identify patients who are at increased risk of certain types of pneumonia.
Differentiating pneumonia from other medical conditions that produce a similar appearance on a chest x-ray challenging. The Pneumonia Evaluation template includes prompters to help identify patients who may have other medical conditions such as myocardial infarction, heart failure, vasculitis, inhalation injury, or esophageal rupture that can cause produce a pneumonia like appearance on chest x-ray.
A sample of the Pneumonia Evaluation MedicalTemplate can be downloaded from http://www.e-medtools.com/SAMPLE_Pneumonia_Evaluation.pdf
MedicalTemplates are created with Adobe PDF technology from Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE), and have editable text fields and working checkboxes. Information can be typed in or pasted from other applications to fill out the template. Completed MedicalTemplates can be saved to a computer, USB drive, CD, DVD, or other storage device at a fraction of the cost of an electronic medical record.
MedicalTemplates can be searched, reviewed, printed, or modified whenever needed without internet access or a connection to a remote computer. Data from a MedicalTemplate can be cut and pasted into another application.
The Pneumonia Evaluation MedicalTemplate costs $50 for an individual license and is sold by RegNow, the software industry’s premier e-commerce provider. The Pneumonia Evaluation MedicalTemplate is available for immediate electronic delivery. RegNow accepts credit cards, checks, wire transfers, PayPal, and purchase orders. Volume discounts are available.
More information regarding the Pneumonia Evaluation MedicalTemplate can be found at http://www.e-medtools.com/pneumonia.html
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MedicalTemplates released a pneumonia evaluation template to streamline documentation for the evaluation of patients with known or suspected pneumonia in both ambulatory and inpatient settings.
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