By Cheryl Manchenton, RN, BSN, CCDS
If you search for Patient Safety Indicator (PSI) 90 (Patient Safety and Adverse Events Composite) in the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) Version 7.0 software released in October 2017, you won’t find it.
By Barbara A. Anderson, RN, MSM, CCDS
Does your daily mood or attitude as a CDI leader or CDI specialist have any effect on the workplace and your organization’s bottom line? What about the mood or attitude of others on your team?Read More »
Susan Edamala, RN, MSN, CCDS, CCRN (Alum), is a clinical nurse consultant II and a CDI specialist at University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System (UIHHSS). She is also a member of the Illinois ACDIS local chapter.Read More »
By Katy Good, RN, BSN, CCDS, CCS
Over the past years, progressive CDI programs have expanded to additional payer sources, begun targeted mortality reviews, and identified hospital-acquired conditions and Patient Safety Indicators, among other initiatives. Despite this, many CDI...Read More »
For many surgeons, “surgical precision” doesn’t just describe their specificity and prowess in the operating room; it often describes their personality as well. Their fine-tuned accuracy is a point of pride not only in the surgical theater, but in everything they do.Read More »
by Trey La Charité, MD, FACP, SFHM, CCS, CCDS
Like it or not, provider documentation is the foundation for everything done in medicine. Without it, nothing is accomplished. As healthcare reform progresses (and hospital reimbursement shrinks), the need for excellent provider...Read More »
There are 12,400 home health agencies which provided care to 4.9 million patients in 2014, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In light of efforts to keep patients from being readmitted to hospitals, and to keep the hospital stays they do undergo as short as possible,...Read More »
“DRG validation can mean many things in many different arenas,” Autumn Reiter, RN, BSN, CCDS, CDIP, CCS, director of CDI staffing services at TrustHCS, said on the January 3 episode of ACDIS Radio, “New approaches in DRG validation.” “Essentially, it’s ensuring a correct final...Read More »
