Though I can now follow along with (at least some of) the acronyms related to CDI, I’m still pretty new to the field. Ever since I was eight years old—or so my parents tell me—I wanted to be a writer. So, when I saw the job posting and description for the...Read More »
Editor’s note: “ACDIS Radio” is a biweekly free webinar featuring ACDIS Director Brian Murphy with case study presentations and interviews with some of the CDI industry’s most cutting-edge practitioners. Tune in every other Wednesday at 11:30 a.m. ET. Register at...Read More »
Turning the microscope to critically examine the program you painstakingly created is no easy task. It is a challenging process that requires a fair amount of humility and humbleness. It’s hard to accept that your program, your staff, and you (the physician...Read More »
Hospital-acquired conditions (HAC) declined by 21% in the last five years, according to a report, “National Scorecard on Rates of Hospital-Acquired Conditions 2010 to 2015: Interim Data From National Efforts to Make Health Care Safer,” published by the Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality (...Read More »
Jeff Morris, RN, BSN, CCDS, started his career in CDI four-and-a-half years ago. Before that, Morris worked as a nurse for more than 15 years in adult critical care, emergency, and ambulatory settings before moving to pediatric emergency and outpatient sedation. Now, he’s the...Read More »
ACDIS is honored to announce that Sorrel King will now be joining us on the podium as our featured general session motivational speaker on day one of the 10th annual ACDIS Conference. In 2001, Sorrel’s daughter Josie died as a result of medical errors. Consumed by grief, King was determined to...Read More »
No new hospital initiative operates in a vacuum. And there is no way to anticipate every consequence of your CDI program. Even with the best intentions, there will be downstream consequences to navigate.
Q: What should we do about the documentation of “acute pulmonary insufficiency?” What indicators are you using for this in comparison to querying for acute respiratory failure? Acute pulmonary insufficiency is an MCC following surgery but it is also a potential patient safety indicator (...Read More »
