Q:Can you provide some tips on how to educate physicians and encourage them to respond to your queries? My hospital is a teaching facility and the system is set up so that nurses can’t even call an attending directly. In most...Read More »
Q: If the patient reports an elevated temperature at home, can we use that towards reporting systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) criteria or does the elevated temperature have to be taken at the hospital?Read More »
Q:We recently had a patient who met criteria for sepsis, but they also presented with a narcotic overdose. Would we be able to code the sepsis based on the criteria present or should we query?Read More »
Barinder Gill, CCS, CDIP, CCDS, will present “Improving Documentation in the Intensive Care Burn Unit” on Day 3 of the ACDIS conference. Gill is a CDI specialist/senior clinical analyst at Unite Health Group in San Francisco, California....Read More »
