This tip card was provided by Angela Maxfield, RN, CCDS, interim CDI specialist III at Stanford Health Care in Palo Alto, California. It was designed for the coders at her facility to use as a reference. Maxfield is also a co-leader for the CDI Educator ACDIS networking group.
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