Identify ways both teams can collaborate during patient admission and post-discharge to effectively meet documentation objectives. Identifying the specific guideposts while adhering to compliant guardrails allows both the coding and CDI professional to lay out an effective work pathway integrating clinical documentation with compliant coding. Outlined below is the Identify, Clarify, Interconnect, and Validate (ICIV) model and a detailed example of how it can be applied.
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