Strive to improve clinical documentation in all settings

CDI initiatives often focus on inpatient documentation to ensure that the documentation accurately reflects patient severity. Capturing that documentation and specificity will be even more important as ICD-10 preparation and implementation efforts get underway. Yet ICD-10 implementation will have an effect on all settings—not just inpatient. And just as inpatient services benefit from CDI efforts, so too will the outpatient arena, especially considering that outpatient visits generate 50% of the revenue for some facilities.