Hospitalists Can Be Champions of Clinical Documentation

He advises hospitalists meet their clinical documentation specialists face to face. “Once you know there are people who are doing their part, and have a relationship with them, you approach the whole problem differently,” Dr. Tsomides says, “as opposed to [viewing them] as anonymous reviewers breathing down your neck and giving you yet another thing to worry about.”

Gretchen Henkel is a freelance writer based in California.