Pediatric CDI

There are major differences in the definitions when applied to infants and children.

Pediatric CDI: Tools for Clarifying Respiratory
Failure in Pediatric Populations

“Many of the codes are designed for adult medicine, and the definitions used to describe these diagnoses are also based on adult medicine, so you can imagine that there are major differences in the definitions when applied to infants and children” - Valerie Bica, BSN, RN, CPN

Pediatricians may clinically agree about when a patient is in respiratory failure—they know it when they see it—but getting everyone to agree on an overarching set of clinical parameters for a documentation improvement program is far from easy. That means CDI professionals struggle to identify pertinent clinical indicators within the medical record to draft effective queries. It also means the clinical definitions that are applied may or may not equate to the appropriate ICD-10-CM codes.

Join expert speakers Valerie Bica, BSN, RN, CPN, and J. Douglas Campbell, MD, FAAP, MHA, as they review the documentation trouble spots and offer tips for educating and querying physicians, as well as examples of how their facilities dealt with these documentation dilemmas.

Join us live on Thursday, October 20th from 1:00–2:30 p.m. Eastern

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