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Q&A: Review palliative care charts and query for 'comfort care' when appropriate

February 16, 2012

CDI Strategies - Volume 6, Issue 4

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Q&A: Coming to terms with the clinical/coding language disconnect

February 2, 2012

CDI Strategies - Volume 6, Issue 3

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Q&A: How to resolve DRG confusion

January 26, 2012

CDI Blog - Volume 5, Issue 3

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Q: Confession. I am very frustrated. I am fairly new to CDI. I have a nursing background. I’m trying to understand how the coding and DRG...Read More »

Q&A: Proper sequencing of heart failure with hypertensive heart/kidney disease

January 19, 2012

CDI Strategies - Volume 6, Issue 2

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Q: I have a question regarding sequencing. I would usually have sequenced 428.21 (heart failure) as principal diagnosis, but I...Read More »

Q&A: When is it appropriate to query for aspiration pneumonia?

January 5, 2012

CDI Strategies - Volume 6, Issue 1

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Ask ACDIS: Including functional quadriplegia definitions on query forms

January 1, 2012

CDI Journal - Volume 6, Issue 1

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Q: Is it okay to include a definition of “functional quadriplegia” when we query the physician for this condition? I was...Read More »

Q&A: Choosing the most appropriate principal diagnosis

December 28, 2011

CDI Blog - Volume 4, Issue 61

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Q: A 79-year-old male nursing home patient presents with lethargy, confusion, and fever after failing an outpatient course of Bactrim for...Read More »