The American Medical Association (AMA) and the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization (IHTSDO) announced a new...Read More »
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...
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.
The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Sep- tic Shock published new clinical guidelines for diagnosing sepsis, dubbed Sepsis...Read More »