A patient is admitted from the ED with signs and symptoms of infection, including fever and elevated WBC. The admitting diagnosis is UTI with suspected sepsis. Possible sepsis is noted on the H&P and the infectious disease consult. Progress notes initially include “sepsis”. The blood culture comes back negative however and following this the diagnosis of sepsis continues to be documented on the progress notes as these are copied-and-pasted from day to day. The Discharge Summary documents “UTI – sepsis was ruled out”. A physician query would be appropriate in this instance?
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