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Agreed.
Chest pain gets a "High risk possible diagnoses include ACS" in my chart (assuming I'm getting an EKG and a trop, even if it's a 30 yr old and the trop was ordered in triage).
Abd pain getting imaging gets: High risk possible diagnoses include perforated hollow viscous, appendicitis, blah blah blah that you would see on a CT scan so writing it down shouldn't open up much medmal risk
Did I order a cbc and a chem only? You bet I'm either documenting one thing family said, or checking their med fill history or whatever to get that 2nd column up to 3 points of data and thus at least a lvl 4.
Everyone who isn't getting admitted either gets a Rx or gets documentation regarding why I considered, but did not provide an Rx. That gets you a lvl 4 at least in the Risk column.
It's all a stupid game. The only part I don't have solidly down (because our coders have been mum on it) is whether my "high risk" comments above are actually checking the box for a lvl 5 chart in the COPA column as that's ultimately at their discretion. The other two columns are pretty checkbox in nature.
So, as much as I hate MediTECH, our version has a pretty great [autotext/macro/whatever-you-want-to-call-it] for each of these situations and more. I simply put that exact text into a microphone command and boom, I'm done.