ACDIS update: ACDIS poll reveals members’ top 10 queried diagnoses

ACDIS exists in part to serve and help CDI professionals in their day-to-day work. To that end, the ACDIS team is always happy to dig up resources for members on a particular topic or even run a polling question to get to the bottom of an issue.

A few weeks ago, ACDIS received an email from a member asking what the most common queried diagnoses are among CDI professionals. While we didn’t have the answer immediately, ACDIS ran a poll probing that exact question.

After gathering responses for a few weeks, here are the top queried diagnoses (the top 10 are colored purple):

• CHF specifity and type (90.59%)
• Sepsis (88.24%)
• Respiratory failure type/acuity (87.06%)
• Malnutrition specificity (81.18%)
• Kidney disease—CKD stages (70.59%)
• Acute blood loss anemia (67.06%)
• Pneumonia type (65.88%)
• Altered mental status clarification (65.88%)
• Encephalopathy type (51.76%)
• Body mass index (high and low) (45.88%)
• Pressure ulcer location/stage (42.35%)
• Debridement type (37.65%)
• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease specificity (20.00%)
• Acute myocardial infarction type/location/specificity (15.29%)
• Atrial fibrillation type/Atrial flutter type (12.94%)
• Stroke specificity (9.41%)
• Neoplasm—primary/secondary (7.06%)
• HIV classification (7.06%)
• Dementia type (3.53%)
• DVT acuity and type (3.53%)

If you have a CDI question you’d like answered, send it to ACDIS Editor Linnea Archibald (larchibald@acdis.org). The ACDIS team is happy to do some digging for you!