Good Clinical Documentation Guide


 

The Good Clinical Documentation Guide helps clinicians to recognise critical elements they need to document to reflect the patient care process, to communicate, report and provide clear data for research and quality of care monitoring.

The Good Clinical Documentation Guide provides general information about the requirements for good documentation, and the relationship between documentation, coding and Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs). Specific information relevant to 22 clinical specialties helps guide and inform clinicians about important issues in documentation.

The specialty chapters feature:

  • a range of clinical topics
  • clinical profiles
  • the top 5 principal diagnoses, procedures and complications and comorbidities (ICD-10-AM/ACHI/ACS Fifth Edition) for each relevant specialty
  • documentation pointers for each topic
  • AR-DRG version 5.1 information where relevant
  • examples of the impact documentation has on DRG assignment where DRG variances can be illustrated.

View sample (gynaecology)

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The guide is provided as an Adobe® Acrobat® file on CD-ROM and features electronic navigation between topics and concepts. The guide is printer-friendly.

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