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