Wiki Hospitalist coding

[sherryjean27]

Can someone help me. I was looking at an admission H&p summary. Date admitted is, 09/12/2009. At the bottom below the signature it has
DD (date dictated) 09/13/2009 and DT 09/14/2009.

The date dictated is the actual day the pt was seen right?

 

[eadun2000]

not necessarily... dd is just date dictated.. does not mean the date the physician saw the patient. He could have seen him on the 12th and dictated on the 13th....