CDI Week 2025 Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 4. (The act of requesting clarification from a provider for missing or ambiguous documentation)
  2. 5. (Ensuring the patient's record accurately reflects their condition and treatment)
  3. 6. (What a CDI professional investigates to find clinical evidence for diagnoses)
  4. 8. (A type of review performed while the patient is still hospitalized)
  5. 9. (A key outcome improved by better CDI, potentially lowering denial rates)
  6. 11. (Type of query response that includes "clinically significant") 7
Down
  1. 1. (Documentation that, when clarified, can move a case to a higher severity of illness)
  2. 2. (Condition often noted by a CDI specialist when the provider documents "hypoxia")
  3. 3. (A type of malnutrition that requires documentation of etiology)
  4. 7. (The official coding system CDI specialists work with)
  5. 10. (The level of a condition that might be missing and prompts a query for "acute" or "chronic")