From the Clinical Documentation Team
These arrhythmias will count toward the Vizient variable “Cardiac Arrhythmia:”
- Re-entry ventricular arrhythmia
- Supraventricular tachycardia
- Ventricular tachycardia
- Paroxysmal tachycardia, unspecified
- Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation
- Persistent atrial fibrillation
- Chronic atrial fibrillation
- Typical atrial flutter
- Atypical atrial flutter
- Unspecified atrial fibrillation
- Unspecified atrial flutter
- Ventricular fibrillation
- Ventricular flutter
- Atrial premature depolarization
- Junctional premature depolarization
- Ventricular premature depolarization
- Unspecified premature depolarization
- Other premature depolarization
- Sick sinus syndrome
- Other specified cardiac arrhythmias
- Cardiac arrhythmia, unspecified
- Bradycardia, unspecified
Documentation example: Pt’s EKG on admission shows chronic atrial fibrillation.
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