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From HIM: Tip to find ‘standard definitions’

01 Sep 2019

Definitions in drop-down menu, one click away



By: Lindsay Newcomer, RN, BSN, clinical documentation improvement specialist

You are sitting down to document after seeing a patient whose creatinine has increased since yesterday and can’t remember the exact Standard Definition for acute renal failure.

Where is that located?

You’re in luck because Salem Health’s official Standard Definitions are only a click away!

Our Standard Definitions are available in Epic via the drop down menu, found in the top left corner. Diagnoses with Salem Health provider-vetted definitions are: AMI, DM, Encephalopathy, Functional Quadriplegia, Malnutrition, Obesity and Morbid Obesity, Renal Failure (both acute and chronic), Acute Respiratory Failure, Sepsis (including SIRS, Severe Sepsis, and Septic Shock), and UTI/CAUTI.