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Briefings on Coding Compliance Strategies (Single Article)

Documentation improvement: a large, gray elephant
November 2002

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by Robert S. Gold, MDEvery blind man has a different way to describe an elephant. I’d like to give you my take on the goals of developing and implementing a physician documentation improvement program—how this particular elephant looks to me. Once upon a time, physicians went to medical school and learned how to take a history from a patient, how to evaluate past medical events and issues, how to examine a patient and formulate a differential diagnosis, and then to use ancillary testing to make a diagnosis. And they learned how to write down every step of this process.Once

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