Query Question
We are being asked to audit queries for compliance. I am being told that there is a difference in auditing queries for compliance from a Children's hospital versus Adult facility. I thought that the basic query guidelines pertained to everyone with clinical indicators present in order to query.
Am I wrong in my thinking? Also, does anyone know what the productivity standards for auditing charts are for children as compared to adults?
Thanks,
Syndi
Syndi Hudson, RN, CCDS,CCM
CHRISTUS Santa Rosa New Braunfels
CDI Specialist
cynthia.hudson@christushealth.org
830-643-6116 (Office)
830-643-5139 (Fax)
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Am I wrong in my thinking? Also, does anyone know what the productivity standards for auditing charts are for children as compared to adults?
Thanks,
Syndi
Syndi Hudson, RN, CCDS,CCM
CHRISTUS Santa Rosa New Braunfels
CDI Specialist
cynthia.hudson@christushealth.org
830-643-6116 (Office)
830-643-5139 (Fax)
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Comments
Dr. Kennedy offered some CDI material for Peds in a recent ACDIS Journal...have you checked that on our site?
Paul
Paul Evans, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CCDS
Manager, Regional Clinical Documentation
Sutter West Bay
633 Folsom St., 7th Floor, Office 7-044
San Francisco, CA 94107
Cell: 415.412.9421
evanspx@sutterhealth.org
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Do you guys currently review pediatrics? Like Dr. Gold says, you can't use adult criteria and apply it to pediatric patients (he has to remind me of that sometimes, lol). Some people think they can take "the" SIRS criteria and apply it to the children...most of whom have a normal HR of >100! We had a very reputable company come and do ICD-10 peer to peer education for our MD's and they quoted the adult SIRS criteria...had to quickly step in and let my MD's know that we use the International pediatric sepsis consensus conference definitions and what they criteria are to even consider sepsis.
We are a freestanding Children's and Women's Hospital so we do review sick ladies also. We follow the latest query guidance from AHIMA/ACDIS for all our queries. Not sure what would be different. Please feel free to email me if you have any questions.
Jeff
jwmorris@health.southaalabama.edu
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