Infectious diseases
Improving Physician Documentation Specificity
AIDS
Central-line bloodstream infection
Cystitis
Drug-resistant infection - Document all infections that are drug resistant and identify the drug(s). (e.g., MRSA, MSSA, VRE).
Hepatitis, viral
Influenza
Intestinal infectious disease- Document type or causative organism when known or suspected (e.g., bacterial, viral, parasitic)
Meningitis
Pneumonia
Rhinitis
Sepsis
Shock- Document type (e.g., cardiogenic, hypovolemic, post-traumtic, septic)
Sinusitis
Tuberculosis
Typhoid and paratyphoid fever
Urinary tract infection (UTI)/catheter-associated UTI
Urosepsis - Do not use this term. There is no code for urosepsis.
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