The American Hospital Association (AHA) recently released a report detailing the increasing financial tolls on hospitals and health systems and the bleak prospects for United States healthcare,...Read More »
Q: A 64-year-old female bilateral lung transplant recipient presents with aspiration pneumonia, hypoxia, and has immunosuppression from the drugs. How would this scenario be reported in ICD-10-CM?
A: Sequenced correctly, the scenario...Read More »
At ACDIS, we place a great deal of emphasis on the role of education and mentorship. Because the intellectual landscape of the CDI discipline is always changing (via clinical updates, new rules and regulations, policies and procedures), it is critical for those in educational positions to modify...Read More »
For many at the 2024 ACDIS conference, it was hard to choose between so many great educational sessions during each hour-long breakout session block! While it’s impossible to capture all the rich learning that occurred live, in-person, with such great speakers, we have uploaded the materials...Read More »
The ACDIS Advisory Board provides the association with guidance and feedback and offers industry expertise through authorship of white papers for ACDIS membership and...Read More »
Piperacillin-tazobactam, one of the antibiotics most frequently prescribed in an empirical regiment for sepsis, was associated with a higher mortality rate and increased duration in organ dysfunction compared with cefepime for adults hospitalized with suspected sepsis, according to...Read More »
