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Amara Whitlock: Hyponatraemia

ENC-00002 · 68F · Cardiology · admitted Wed Oct 28, 2026 07:50 PM · discharged Thu Nov 05, 2026 02:50 PM · attending Dr. Wes Merriweather · resident Dr. Noor Halvorsen

Clinical judgement required Clinical judgement required Open

Clinical judgement required: Low sodium without documented treatment or repeat values; clinical significance is a clinician judgement.

Documented vs supported

Documented: “hyponatremia” · E87.1 Hypo-osmolality and hyponatremia
Criteria support: no conclusion: clinical judgement required
Outcome: Low sodium without documented treatment or repeat values; clinical significance is a clinician judgement
Rule: Hyponatraemia v2026.11-1
Published source: Clinical practice guideline on diagnosis and treatment of hyponatraemia (Spasovski et al., Eur J Endocrinol 2014;170:G1-G47) (2014), Classification by biochemical severity: mild 130-135, moderate 125-129, profound <125 mmol/L · source (checked 2026-11-14)

Clinical judgement required. The rule does not conclude here. A CDI specialist may send an open query or dismiss the finding; nothing is proposed as fact.

Effect if the clinician agrees (illustrative)

Change: no projected change (clinician judgement)
Secondary-diagnosis level: CC → —
MS-DRG (illustrative): 292 Heart failure and shock with CC → 292 Heart failure and shock with CC
Relative weight: 0.8490 → 0.8490 (+0.0000)
Codes before: I50.9, E46, N18.4, N17.9, E87.1
Codes after: I50.9, E46, N18.4, N17.9, E87.1

All open gaps on this encounter together: MS-DRG 292 → 292 (RW +0.0000). The grouping does not change; the record becomes accurate.

CC/MCC status, CC exclusions (subset) and relative weights from the public CMS FY2026 IPPS final rule tables (5, 6I, 6J, 6K). This is not a grouper and not a payment estimate. Queries never mention any of this.

Severity documentation index change SIMULATED

0.0 points

SIMULATED: Illustrative severity weights (MCC = 1.0, CC = 0.5, non-CC = 0) summed over secondary diagnoses; not a validated risk-adjustment model and not a measured effect.

Evidence

Structured values are read by code from the cited rows. Note facts are shown only when the model's quote was found verbatim in the note.

Evidence (each item cited to a source row or a quoted span)
Input	Value	Source
Lowest serum sodium this stay (mmol/L)	133.0	sodium 133 mmol/L · lab LAB-000037 · 2026-10-28 20:50
Number of sodium values below 135	1	sodium 133 · lab LAB-000037 · 2026-10-28 20:50

Rule trace (inputs, thresholds, outcome)

Rule trace (rule hyponatremia v2026.11-1; evaluated in order, first true outcome wins; "unknown" = missing input)
Step	Expression	Inputs and thresholds read	Result
derived: severity	`case(na_min < t.profound, 'profound', na_min < t.moderate, 'moderate', na_min < t.low, 'mild', 'none')`	na_min=133.0, t.low=135, t.moderate=130, t.profound=125	mild
outcome: met	`na_min < t.low and na_low_count >= t.repeat and na_treated`	na_low_count=1, na_min=133.0, na_treated=False, t.low=135, t.repeat=2	false
outcome: untreated	`na_min < t.low`	na_min=133.0, t.low=135	true

Documentation query

Title and question drafted by model clockworks-mock (audit entry #1960); clinical indicators and answer options assembled by code from the rule and the record.

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DOCUMENTATION QUERY (draft)
Title: Clarification request: electrolyte documentation
Encounter: ENC-00002   Patient: Amara Whitlock   To: Dr. Wes Merriweather

Clinical indicators from the health record:
- Documented in the record: "hyponatremia" [Progress note DOC-000006]
- sodium 133 mmol/L (2026-10-28 20:50) [lab LAB-000037]

Question:
Could you review the sodium values above and clarify their clinical significance, if any?

Response options (select one or write your own):
( ) Hyponatremia (please specify cause, if known)
( ) Other (please specify): ____________
( ) Unable to determine

Please respond based on your independent clinical judgement. Any response, including "unable to determine", is acceptable. This query and your response are kept as part of the health record.

Other findings on this encounter

Acute kidney injury · Clinical validation gap Documented “acute kidney injury” (N17.9) but the criteria are not met: KDIGO creatinine and urine-output criteria not met.
Heart failure · Specificity gap Documented “congestive heart failure” (I50.9); criteria support the more specific Acute on chronic systolic (HFrEF) heart failure (I50.23).
Malnutrition · Clinical judgement required Clinical judgement required: Only one consensus characteristic documented; two are required.

History

Audit entries for this finding (newest first)
Seq	When (UTC)	Actor	Action	Entities	Decision / reason	Model / hashes
1960	2026-11-14T20:57:22	system:llm system	`llm.call`	ENC-00002, ENC-00002.hyponatremia	—	clockworks-mock mock-1/exactdx.draft_query@1 prompt b490130e78a9 output 87f72fd19df7 entry 49c03dc976f1
1134	2026-11-14T19:24:27	system:llm system	`llm.call`	ENC-00002, ENC-00002.hyponatremia	—	clockworks-mock mock-1/exactdx.draft_query@1 prompt b490130e78a9 output 87f72fd19df7 entry f8543440c5d5
392	2026-11-14T18:29:02	system:llm system	`llm.call`	ENC-00002, ENC-00002.hyponatremia	—	clockworks-mock mock-1/exactdx.draft_query@1 prompt b490130e78a9 output 87f72fd19df7 entry 430fb631c6a0