Clinical Documentation Improvement Series #1, Documenting Acute Respiratory Failure

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    Respiratory failure is one of the most common diagnoses in the intensive care unit. When this problem is acute (or acute on chronic), it has to be noted properly in the documentation. Criteria used to diagnose it are a PaO2 lower than 60mmHg, a...