Respiratory Failure in COPD Patients

Posted by PPR at 4/27/2010 9:31 AM
Categories: Practice Management, Hospital Medicine
Tags: Hospital Medicine

In an article written by Deborah Hale for the April 2010 issue of ACP Hospitalist, Deborah discusses how a diagnosis of acute respiratory failure can affect documentation and payment.

With average cost, length of stay and mortality rate comparisons so much a part of today’s health care delivery system, it is important that a patient’s diagnosis be recorded to the highest level of specificity. Hospitalists should always document the most severe form of the disease process that accurately explains the circumstance of an admission. Read the full article.

 

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