New Sepsis Definition: Evolving Clinical, Documentation, and Coding Challenges Presented on: July 27, 2016 1:00–2:30 p.m. Eastern Presented by: Richard D. Pinson, MD, FACP, CCS Original broadcast Thursday, April 14 2016. Sponsored by: Association of Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialists It’s not your routine definition of sepsis anymore. In February, the Journal of the American Medical Association published the Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3). Noting the “inadequate specificity and sensitivity of the systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) criteria,” Sepsis-3 discards the concept of sepsis as SIRS due to infection—a radical change to the diagnostic standard of the last 25 years.
Clinical documentation specialists, coders, and clinicians alike need to come together now to develop policies and processes for dealing with the complexities and consequences of these new criteria while maintaining compliance with existing National Quality Foundation, ICD-10, and Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting requirements.
During this program, expert speaker Richard D. Pinson, MD, FACP, CCS, will offer insight into the changing medical thinking regarding the clinical criteria of this important diagnosis and discuss an approach to help CDI professionals unite key stakeholders around effective and compliant processes. Agenda - Deconstruction of sepsis’ clinical evolution
- Sepsis
- Septic shock
- Systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS)
- Sepsis-related organ failure
- Septicemia
- Sepsis syndrome
- Bacteremia
- Surviving Sepsis campaign
- The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock
- The new definition
- Sequential (Sepsis-Related) Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score
- Quick SOFA (qSOFA), bedside screening tool
- Coding and documentation conundrums
- ICD-10 and ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting conflicts
- Organ dysfunction “associated with” sepsis
- Audit risks
- Surviving Sepsis campaign
- Definitions of sepsis, severe sepsis, and septic shock
- Response to Sepsis-3 (March 1, 2016)
- Quality-related measures and difficulties
- CMS Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR)
- National Quality Forum (NQF) severe sepsis and septic shock management bundle
- Collaborative responses
- Workgroup analysis
- Process and procedure revision
- Educational efforts
- Query collaboration and creation
- Q&A
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