The 30-day hospital readmission rate for stroke patients declined by an annual average of 3.3% from 2010 to 2014, MedPage Today reported. According to national data on more than two million stroke hospital discharges,...Read More »
Certain decision support alerts built into hospital EHR systems can lower costs, readmissions, and complications for patients, according to a new study published in the...Read More »
While I’m tempted to start with a joke about encephalopathy being confusing, it turns out the ACDIS website has a number of helpful resources to provide some clarity and ease some of the uncertainty surrounding the diagnosis.
Q:We recently had a patient who was admitted with sepsis POA and a UTI. When the chart was coded, UTI was listed as the principal diagnosis. I was under the impression that when sepsis is POA, it should always be coded as the...Read More »
There are few things more frustrating than the “organ system” approach to medical record documentation. Unfortunately, coders cannot code “acute respiratory failure” if all the physician writes is “respiratory system, continue on...Read More »