For many people, Memorial Day marks the unofficial start of summer. (As a quick aside, if you haven’t already used the code CDIMEMORIAL20 to take...Read More »
We’re considering doing a chart audit of our neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) but aren’t sure what the value of that would be. Do you have experience auditing your NICU charts? If so, what did you find?Read More »
If you listened to the Quarterly Conference Call last week on May 21, you know that we experienced some technical difficulties causing the call to end abruptly. The ACDIS team is working diligently to correct the...Read More »
While healthcare workers are busy dealing with the influx of COVID-19 patients, some CDI teams have been asked to modify their review and physician engagement practices to take any additional administrative burden off clinicians’ backs.
“I received a joint directive from our chief quality...Read More »
As director of ACDIS, I could not be prouder of the way our members and the CDI community as a whole have stepped up in the midst of the worst pandemic since the days of the Spanish flu. COVID-19 has overwhelmed emergency departments and ICUs, exposed flaws in...Read More »