CDIA Community: Clinical Catchup Webinar Series

Clinical Catchup: A Webinar Series Relating Clinical Updates to CDI and Clinical Coding

The world of medicine is fast-paced and ever changing. New breakthroughs and discoveries are being made every day, and the way in which we understand and classify conditions is constantly evolving. With the accessibility of online journals, this information is disseminated globally in an instant. 

Clinicians use this information to update their practice, but this often happens in a non-linear manner, with some clinicians and specialties adopting new approaches more quickly than others. 

This can make interpreting documentation challenging for clinical coders and clinical documentation specialists. Inconsistency, conflicting documentation, and a lack of communication about changes that have occurred make it difficult to classify conditions, especially when coding standards might not reflect the most up to date clinical understanding. 

Aware of this problem, we have created "Clinical Catchup". In this Webinar series, one of CDIA's medical doctors will discuss pertinent clinical updates and how they apply to CDI and clinical coding. 

Join us for the first instalment on Friday the 24th of March, in which CDIA's Dr. Felicity Sinclair-Ford will discuss post-operative pain. Covering physiology, pathophysiology, and classification, this Webinar will enable you to make sense of documentation around post-operative pain and when it might be appropriate to query for "significant post-operative pain".