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The importance of clinical documentation improvement for Australian hospitals
- Source :
- Health Information Management Journal. 49:69-73
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2019.
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Abstract
- Clinical documentation improvement (CDI) is a recent initiative gaining increased momentum in Australia. The benefits surrounding its success internationally include improved quality and patient safety outcomes and increased reimbursement. The premise of CDI is simple: engage clinicians to improve the clinical documentation in the medical record in “real time” so that it is fit for reporting, analysis and reimbursement. Every country has differing healthcare systems and this article has focused on validating the relevancy of CDI for the Australian healthcare environment.
- Subjects :
- genetic structures
Leadership and Management
Documentation
Health informatics
Financial management
03 medical and health sciences
Patient safety
0302 clinical medicine
Health Information Management
Nursing
International Classification of Diseases
Health care
Humans
Medicine
030212 general & internal medicine
Diagnosis-Related Groups
Reimbursement
business.industry
030503 health policy & services
Health Policy
Medical record
Australia
Clinical Coding
Financial Management, Hospital
Quality Improvement
Hospitals
Data Accuracy
Data quality
0305 other medical science
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18333575 and 18333583
- Volume :
- 49
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Health Information Management Journal
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....284985fda025337ba7c0f0e112a24071