Measuring a CDI department’s impact is imperative to tracking and proving its success, and one key performance indicator that CDI programs are consistently measured by is the case-mix...Read More »
Historically, EHRs have tended to only include one indication of gender: the gender a patient was assigned at birth. While many patients identify as their birth-assigned gender and are thus correctly represented by this indicator, this may not be the case for patients who are transgender or part...Read More »
According to the official chapter agreement form, chapter members who wish to join ACDIS national may do so at a discounted rate. This discount is meant to encourage participation of chapter members with the national association. To take advantage of this discount, individual chapter members...Read More »
As Rebecca Hendren, ACDIS director of programming, said in her note last week, the ACDIS team really feels like we’re entering a new year now that the 2022 conference...Read More »
A survey of physicians found that a significant portion experienced mistreatment in the prior year, with patients and visitors the most common source of abuse, according to research published in the...Read More »
In a recent joint paper published in The New England Journal of Medicine, the National Quality Forum (NQF) and Humana called for a new risk adjustment model that accounts for both clinical factors and social...Read More »