Definitions
Acute Adult
Acute Pediatric
Post-acute Inpatient
Help
100
This interqual procuct is for hospital admissions of persons 18 or older
What is Acute Adult?
100
This is the medical subset you would use if no "condition specific" one exists.
What is General medical?
100
This is the subset that you would use to review a 14 month old admitted with a "barking cough" and inspiratory stridor.
What is Acute, Pedicatric:Croup
100
Sandy is a 40 year old s/p severe pnumonia and respiratory failure. She has been on mechanical ventilation for 8 days. She is stable and referrals are for made for weaning. This is the most appropriate likely LOC that will be reviewed.
What is Long-term Acute Care-Weaning Program-pre-admission?
100
This is the place that I can look up an abbreviation.
What is Help, InterQual Clinical Reference, Abbreviations and Symbols?
200
This InterQual product is used for inpatient admissions for persons less than 18 years old.
What is Acute Pediatric?
200
Mr. Green presented to the ER with dypnea at rest, fatigue, CXR shows pulmonary edema. Given this clinical, this would be the most apporpriate subset to use for this review.
What is Heart Failure?
200
You may use this sub-set for an infant up to 28 days old that is re-admitted to an acute care facility.
What is Acute Pediatric: Nursery?
200
Sandy has been accepted to the LTAC for vent weaning and you have received the clinical evaluation. This is the review type that will be done at this time.
What is LTAC, Ventilator Weaning-Admission review?
200
This is where I can find out what class a drug is.
What is Help: Clinical Reference:drug list?
300
This criteria subset is appropriate to use when there is a plan in place to begin active ventilator weaning with 24- 48 hours for patients who require stabilization of their underlying disease process
What is LTAC:Ventilator Weaning?
300
This is the subset that you would chose for post-operative management if inpatient surgical procedures (excluding Inpatient GI.)
What is Adult: General Surgical?
300
You would use this subset for a newborn with a gestational age of 35 weeks or more who have been discharged home and are readmiited to Special care Nursery or NICU for elevated bilirubin or BIND.
What is Acute, Pediatric:Hyperbilirubinemia?
300
When reviewing a request for Acute Rehabilitation for a 14 year old, you will find that there are this many different subsets included.
What is only one (pediatric rehabilitation)?
300
I am stuck and do not know how to do this type of review. This is where I can go for assistance.
What is Help; Guide to Conducting Reviews?
400
This post-acute inpatient LOC requires that patients recieve at least 3 hours of skilled therapy at least 5 days per week.
What is Acute Rehabilitation?
400
This is the subset you would use to review a patient that is over 18 years old , 32 weeks pregnant and having pre-term labor.
What is Acute Adult Antepartum/Postpartum?
400
A 10 year old has been admitted with DX Kawaski's Disease. The correct subset to use is this.
What is Acute, Pediatric: general medical?
400
The Adult Sub-acute & SNF category contains this many subsets.
What is three?
400
One of the patients you are reviewing is being transferred to an Acute Rehabilitation facilty. You have been asked to look for the mean Length of stay for that rehab subset. This is where you can find this information.
What is Help: InterQual Clinical Reference:clinical reference 2013:index: Lenght of stay?
500
The Pediatric subacute category is found in this product.
What is Subacute/SNF?
500
This is the subset you would use to review an admission of a 19 year old admitted to r/o bacterial menengitis.
What is Acute Adult: Infection: CNS?
500
Eric is an 8 year old male that has been admitted with a diagnosis of Hemophilia. The most appropriate subset to use for his admiision review is this.
What is Actue pediatric:Anemia/Bleeding?
500
The subacute/SNF subsets do not include patients that require Long Term Care.
What is True?
500
This is the year that InterQual was first released.
What is 1978?