The first week of the month is typically the time when ACDIS CDI Education Director Laurie Prescott and I spend with our PROPELCDI clients during their regular educational calls. It’s always heartwarming when an attendee expresses...Read More »
If you’ve ever read one of our position papers or white papers, listened to an ACDIS quarterly conference call, or attended an advisory board panel at the national conference, then you know the crucial role the ACDIS advisory board plays in the leadership of our association and the greater CDI...Read More »
The ACDIS website now has dedicated FAQ sections for questions about membership, certifications, publications, and resources.
To use the FAQ sections, first hover your mouse over “Membership,” “Certification,” “Publications,” or “Resources” on the menu bar of the ACDIS website. When a...Read More »
Did you know that ACDIS national has a repository of helpful resources, tools, and samples specifically geared toward local chapter leaders? You can find a wealth of free information in the Local Chapter Leadership Toolkit.
Whether your chapter meets formally or informally, has 10 or 200...Read More »
Coral Fernandez, RN, CCDS, CCS, is a CDI auditor/educator at Baptist Health System, and a co-chair of the ACDIS CDI educators networking group. She’s been in the CDI field for 20 years, spending the first 16 as a CDI specialist before moving into her current role four years ago.Read More »
I’ve always thought that, as long as the clinical indicators support the condition you’re querying for, providing all the options for the specific type/specificity of that condition allows the provider to use their clinical judgement. Is this correct?Read More »
2020 is one of those oddities that occurs (almost) every four years: a leap year. Leap years were first created to account for the mismatch of timing between the Earth making one revolution on is own, or a day, and how long it takes to travel around the sun, which...Read More »
I am a little confused about sepsis coding. I understand that the documentation of “sepsis syndrome” should be queried, but when should “viral sepsis” versus “viral sepsis syndrome” be used?Read More »
