HCPro, JustCoding Inpatient - 2021 Issue 7 (February)
CDI teams: Looking into the state of minorities and COVID-19
February 16th, 2021
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Article Overview
This piece discusses reported COVID-19 disparities affecting minority populations and explains why the topic matters to clinical documentation integrity professionals. It connects broad public health data, social determinants of health, and ICD-10-CM documentation concepts to the role CDI teams can play in supporting more complete capture of patient circumstances.
Why This Topic Matters
It helps CDI and coding professionals understand a public health and documentation topic that may influence how patient context is recognized and recorded in the medical record.
What You Will Learn
- How COVID-19 disparities have been discussed in relation to minority populations
- Which broad social and socioeconomic factors are associated with worse outcomes
- Why social determinants of health are relevant to CDI workflows
- How the article frames documentation of patient circumstances in ICD-10-CM
- What types of external resources and public health references are mentioned
Who Should Read This
- Clinical documentation integrity professionals
- Medical coders
- Health information management professionals
- Healthcare quality and compliance staff
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