The American journal of emergency medicine
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Pediatric appendicitis is a common, potentially serious condition. Determining perforation status is crucial to planning effective management. ⋯ The routine measurement of STBC does not accurately distinguish perforation status in children with appendicitis, nor discern infecting organism in those with perforation and intra-abdominal abscess.
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While there has been considerable effort devoted to developing alternative payment models (APMs) for primary care physicians and for episodes of care beginning with inpatient admissions, there has been relatively little attention by payers to developing APMs for specialty ambulatory care, and no efforts to develop APMs that explicitly focus on emergency care. In order to ensure that emergency care is appropriately integrated and valued in future payment models, emergency physicians (EPs) must engage with the stakeholders within the broader health care system. In this article, we describe a framework for the development of APMs for emergency medicine and present four examples of APMs that may be applicable in emergency medicine. A better understanding of how APMs can work in emergency medicine will help EPs develop new APMs that improve the cost and quality of care, and leverage the value that emergency care brings to the system.
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A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials on evaluating the clinical efficacy of Xuebijing in treating patients with sepsis had been recently published in this journal, however, in our opinion, at least 6 questions or doubts existed about the content and methodology of the systematic review, thus, we write this letter to the journal to share these questions with the editor and readers with the hope of getting these questions solved and learning more about the true effects which Xuebijing should have on in treating patients with sepsis.