Can you please discuss right heart failure and its relationship to pulmonary hypertension instead of diastolic heart failure. For example,...Read More »
When I was trained as a new CDI specialist, I was told that I could query for hyponatremia with two low sodium (NA) values as a clinical indicator...Read More »
Our facility has adopted a systemwide definition of sepsis (based on Sepsis-3) and we’re having success with educating most providers. Some of our...Read More »
What are some ways to assist with mortality reviews in order to identify missed opportunities and increase the severity of illness (SOI)/risk of...Read More »
If a patient safety indicator (PSI) would be excluded because a procedure was emergent, do you still capture the code that would have triggered a...Read More »
Under what circumstances and when is it appropriate to code flash (acute) pulmonary edema and acute-on-chronic heart failure (diastolic or...Read More »
