• Build a relational, patient-specific, clinical database of all inpatient, outpatient, and long-term-care episodes of care.
• Collect disease-specific clinical data to document and assess quality of care and for use in clinical practice improvement studies.
• Perform severity-adjusted outcome analyses.
• Monitor the quality of the complete continuum of patient care by assessing changes in patient severity.

• Reduce costs by developing appropriate clinical practice protocols.
• Improve evaluations of provider performance for internal management and quality improvement.
• Improve medical record documentation and coding for substantiating third-party reimbursement by identifying unconfirmed or missing diagnostic codes.
• Establish and validate managed care risk-sharing arrangements for reimbursement of inpatient and outpatient care.

• More than 2,700 separate CSI criteria sets reflect disease aggregations of more than 19,000 ICD-9-CM codes.
• Over 2,100 disease-specific severity criteria based on objective clinical findings.
• Fully integrated with inpatient, outpatient, and long-term-care information; pediatric and adult patients: psychiatric, medical, surgical, and rehabilitation.
• Patient-specific and disease-specific data elements: demographic, physiologic (signs and symptoms), psychosocial, and financial.
• Auxiliary Data Modules to capture patient, process, and outcomes data for your own clinical practice improvement studies.
• Standard reports plus unlimited custom reports of your choice and design.
• User-friendly menu-driven on-line help screens, dictionaries, and documentation.
• Color-coded screens for easy data entry.
• Accepts and delivers data via ASCII files.
• Access to a national database.
• Telephone support.
• Runs on standard IBM-compatible microcomputers (including laptops) and can be used on industry-standard networks.

Detailed Description of CSI

CSI Severity Classification Tiers

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