During the 2015 Association for Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialists (ACDIS) Conference, a national work group of experienced pediatric CDI specialists including pediatricians, pediatric hospitalists, pediatric critical care physicians, nurses, and coding specialists was formed to...

by Paul Evans, RHIA, CCDS, CCS, CCS-P

Documentation and coding of severe sepsis matters in terms of patient risk assessment and establishing sepsis as a diagnosis, as well as the effect of such documentation (and subsequent code assignment) on quality measures.

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