Respiratory Failure

Increasing physician knowledge and proficiency with Advocate Health Care's clinical information systems.

Document onset (acute, chronic, acute on chronic)
Document type (hypoxic, hypercapneic, hypoxic and hypercapneic)
Document underlying cause (e.g., COPD)
If post-procedural, distinguish between acute and acute on chronic post-procedural respiratory failure

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Increasing physician knowledge and proficiency with Advocate Health Care's clinical information systems.

July 31, 2015

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