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Four steps to physician query success

Over and over again, CDI specialists ask: “How do you obtain physician buy-in?”

At Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana, Ill., physician query response rate rose from roughly 50% back in its CDI program’s early days to an estimated 98% today. So how did Carle do it?

Like most things in life, their success depended on hard work and hard data, tenacity, and understanding. If you ask them, they’ll tell you success required a multifaceted approach.

 

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