Seasonal Affective Disorder

Part 2- Turning in your final treatment plan and Analysis  

The final treatment plan will include the primary diagnosis, diagnostic testing recommended by National Guidelines. Medications, interventions, education, labs, follow up, referrals. After completing the treatment plan include the following sections in a large area called ANALYSIS:

1. Pathophysiology and Pharmacology: For the primary diagnoses in the case, write a brief summary of the underlying pathophysiology and tie pharmacological treatment chosen in the reversal or control of that pathology.

2. Additional analysis of the case: This includes national guidelines that were or should have been used to make diagnosis or treatment and review how they applied or how care was unique but based in guidelines.

3. Follow-up/Referrals: This means how the patient was doing when seen a second time if this applies. This would be their response to your plan of care. OR when Follow up will occur and what actions will be taken on the follow up visit. Referrals if indicated.

4. Quality: Include anything that should have been considered in hindsight or changes you would make in seeing similar patients in the future with the same complaint, history, exam, or diagnosis. Add anything you learned from discussion in the class that shed new light on this patient.

5. Coding and Billing. Any or all CPT and ICD-10 codes that should have been used (List them and name them only.

Select an infectious disease and research the CDC website for: 

A. Information about the disease using the natural history of disease;from point of disease causing agent contact to full manifestation, or only the epidemiolic triangle model by including outbreak characteristics.

B. Identify an occurrence of the disease by searching the Internet for recent reports of this disease,

C.) Compare that episode or occurrence with information from the CDC website. How closely did that outbreak resemble the case definition? Explain the purpose of the CDC case definition.