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Clinically Speaking: Check CDI efforts related to functional quadriplegia

by Richard D. Pinson, MD, FACP, CCS

Quadriplegia is a very familiar condition that would never go unnoticed and undocumented in the medical record. The causes are typically catastrophic damage to the upper spinal cord due to trauma, vascular injury, or neoplasm. It could be described as structural or spinal quadriplegia to distinguish it from functional quadriplegia.

 

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