HCPro, JustCoding Inpatient - 2020 Issue 7 (February)
Healthcare News: Sepsis to blame for large number of worldwide deaths, study shows
February 18th, 2020
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Article Overview
This article covers recent research on the worldwide burden of sepsis and a separate coding update discussion focused on ICD-10-CM reporting changes proposed by the CDC. It is relevant to inpatient coders, coding educators, quality and compliance staff, and readers tracking public health statistics and diagnostic coding updates. The piece provides general context on sepsis research, mentions the CDC’s alignment with newer sepsis definitions, and notes proposed code set revisions.
Why This Topic Matters
Sepsis is a major public health topic and an area where diagnosis reporting has direct implications for research, mortality statistics, and hospital coding accuracy. Understanding the coding update discussion helps readers follow changes that may affect inpatient documentation review and sepsis-related data reporting.
What You Will Learn
- The scale of reported global sepsis burden and mortality
- How sepsis research uses death certificate data
- Why sepsis reporting can be difficult in coding and mortality statistics
- That the CDC has proposed ICD-10-CM changes related to sepsis definitions
- Which broad categories of ICD-10-CM sepsis-related codes are involved in the proposal
Who Should Read This
- Inpatient coders
- Coding educators
- Clinical documentation improvement specialists
- Health information management professionals
- Compliance staff
- Public health readers
- Researchers
Codes Discussed
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