CDI Strategies - Volume 14, Issue 29

Q&A: Septicemia versus bacteremia

July 16, 2020
Ask ACDIS, Clinical & Coding

Our facility has adopted a systemwide definition of sepsis (based on Sepsis-3) and we’re having success with educating most providers. Some of our infectious disease providers, however, like to use the term septicemia which codes to A41.9, Sepsis, unspecified organism. This is somewhat of a...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 14, Issue 29

ACDIS update: Join us for our sepsis webinar on Tuesday, July 21

July 16, 2020
Education

Sepsis and its various disease progressions and complications result in nearly 270,000 deaths annually, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Furthermore, a number of patients sick with COVID-19 have experienced an immune response called a ...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 14, Issue 29

ACDIS update: Take the CDI Week Industry Survey, be entered to win a prize

July 16, 2020

As CDI Week gets closer, we’re getting more and more excited to celebrate with this year’s theme of ACDIS Cinema-CDI: Coming to an Organization Near You! If you haven’t already, mark your calendars for September 14-18 and join us for the...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 14, Issue 29

ACDIS update: Call for Diversity and Inclusion Task Force, ACDIS Podcast volunteers

July 16, 2020

To cap off yesterday’s episode of The ACDIS Podcast: Talking CDI, ACDIS Director Brian Murphy made two very special announcements regarding the...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 14, Issue 29

Local chapter update: Fall is just around the corner

July 16, 2020

We are already over halfway through this whirlwind of a year. Many local chapters have had to reschedule events, change them to be virtual seminars instead of in-person, or cancel them all together. Local chapters have supported others in offering free webinars throughout the pandemic available...Read More »
CDI Blog - Volume 14, Issue 28

Journal excerpt: Provider struggles

July 27, 2021
Education

No matter the level of training and preparation you put into implementing a new technology, you’ll likely still encounter some struggles along the adoption journey. Inevitably, regardless of the project, there will always be a few troublesome providers, according to Vaughn Matacale, MD,...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 14, Issue 28

Note from the ACDIS Director: CDI creativity in lean times

July 9, 2020
Education

by Brian Murphy

When times get tough—and boy, they have been a bear these last few months—CDI professionals have a wonderful way of rising to the occasion. Our recent impact of COVID-19 on CDI departments...Read More »
CDI Strategies - Volume 14, Issue 28

News: CDC releases FY 2021 ICD-10-CM code update

July 9, 2020
Clinical & Coding, News, Quality & Regulatory

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) posted the fiscal year (FY) 2021 ICD-10-CM final code changes. There were no changes to the proposed list of 490 new, 47 revised, and 58 invalidated codes that were released in...Read More »

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