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Improve documentation of underperforming service lines

by Trey La Charité, MD

Wouldn’t it be nice if every service line in your hospital fully embraced your CDI program’s goals? How frustrating is it when all of the clinical indicators for a given diagnosis are placed squarely under the nose of one of your physicians—only to be ignored? If this is a frequent occurrence in your facility, the following example of how our program addressed an underperforming service line may provide a solution for your institution’s reticent participants.

 

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