The results of the election are in, and ACDIS welcomes four new advisory board members for three-year terms of service, effective April 2019-April 2022.Read More »
Lynette Kutz, RN, BSN, CCDS, is a CDI specialist at Advocate Aurora Health in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. She’s been in the CDI field for nine years.Read More »
I recently had someone tell me how much they loved our white paper, “How to conduct a medical record review,” enough to use it as a baseline for a policy in their own organizational policy...Read More »
Acute care hospitals reduced c. diff infections by 13%, CLABSIs by 9%, and CAUTIs by 5% in 2017, according to the latest progress report on reducing healthcare-associated infections from the CDC.Read More »
Newsweek has partnered with a global market research and consumer data company, Statista Inc., to develop their own ranking of the top hospitals. Unlike the lists from ...Read More »
Q:A patient recently came in with SOB and was found to have a incarcerated ventral hernia. SOB was documented throughout the record. Can SOB be coded separately or is it integral to hernia?Read More »