Documentation and Coding for Patient Safety Indicators

Sep 15, 2000 · 7 Central Venous Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections (CV-CRBIs) The narrative of the code for CV-CRBI is “infection due to central venous catheter”, which means that this code should be assigned when the catheter is the source of the infection, not when it becomes infected from another source (e.g., bacteremia, sepsis from the urinary ... ................
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