Advocate Physician Informatics

Cerebral Infarction/ Stroke

Improving Physician Documentation Specificity

  • Document etiology:
    • Due to embolus
    • Due to thrombus
  • Document specific precerebral or cerebral artery affected and right or left when appropriate:
    • Vertebral
    • Basilar
    • Carotid
    • Middle
    • Anterior
    • Posterior
    • Other
  • Document residuals from current stroke. For example: . . .

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May 31, 2015

Brain Compression

Improving Physician Documentation Specificity

Link diagnostic study to clinical diagnosis
CT findings are not equivalent to a diagnosis
Documentation of Midline shift is not equivalent to brain compression

Adult (main)|Pediatrics (main)

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May 31, 2015

Alzheimer’s Disease

Improving Physician Documentation Specificity

  • Document onset as: Early or Late
  • If with dementia, document as:
    • With behavioral disturbance, for example combative and/or aggressive behavior or wandering
    • Without behavioral disturbance

Adult (main)|Pediatrics (main)

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May 31, 2015

Schizophrenia

Improving Physician Documentation Specificity

  • Document type:
    • Catatonic
    • Paranoid
    • Disorganized
    • Residual
    • Other
    • Undifferentiated
  • If diagnosis is schizoaffective disorder, document type as: Bipolar or Depressive

Adult (main)|Pediatrics (main)

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May 31, 2015

Gender identity disorder

Improving Physician Documentation Specificity

Document: In adolescence or adulthood
State any sex reassignment status

Adult (main)|Pediatrics (main)

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May 31, 2015

Eating Disorder

Improving Physician Documentation Specificity

Specify Type

  • Anorexia nervosa-restricting type
  • Anorexia nervosa-binge eating type
  • Anorexia nervosa-purging type
  • Bulimia nervosa
  • PICA
  • Psychogenic loss of appetite

Adult (main)|Pediatrics (main)

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May 31, 2015

Depression, postpartum

Improving Physician Documentation Specificity

  • Document type, such as:
    • Major depression
    • Adjustment disorder with or without depression and/or anxiety, e.g., grief reaction
    • Anxiety depression
    • Depressive neurosis
    • Unspecified depression diagnosis is coded as major depression

Adult (main)|Pediatrics (main)

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May 31, 2015

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