Much like ACDIS national’s survey into travel plans for the coming months, the Michigan ACDIS chapter created its own survey to plan its fall conference.
If you are planning to hold a local chapter meeting later this summer or fall, consider making your own survey to see if an in-person...Read More »
The CDI role is diversifying, expanding. Opportunities are growing. During our February ACDIS Quarterly Conference Call my colleagues and I reviewed the data from the most recent CDI Salary Survey...Read More »
Primary care clinicians overestimate the probability of disease before and after diagnostic testing, which likely leads to overutilization of treatment that could harm patients, according to a study published in the...Read More »
Recently, we’ve seen an uptick in clinical validation denials regarding acute pulmonary insufficiency and acute respiratory failure following surgery. What can we do to fight or prevent denials for these diagnoses?Read More »
Queries are a daily part of the CDI specialist’s workflow and are often a very important key performance indicator for facilities to track. When it comes to those physicians who are not responding to queries, there are a few different ways an organization can choose to track, or not track, this...Read More »