2014 Conference, Track 4: Successful Strategies to Improve Surgical ICU Documentation

Brent Hadder, MD, explores the ICU where multiple issues involving multiple organ systems and diagnoses occur simultaneously. He shares strategies implemented at the University of Iowa to improve surgical ICU documentation and coding. Hadder illustrates how a practicing physician and anesthesiologist certified in critical care, hospice, and palliative medicine improved documentation to cover postoperative care for complex surgical patients, end-of-life discussions and care, and common diagnoses in surgical ICU patients.