Q: I attended the ACDIS conference in Nashville. (It was excellent!) I had a question about whether or not queries can be used to question the documentation of a condition or procedure where the clinical picture in the record does not appear to support a given diagnosis. I thought the...Read More »
Q:I am concerned about the way we are being taught to write queries; it feels counter to the way I learned at the CDI Boot Camp and the materials I have read via ACDIS. For example, the query lists the appropriate clinical indicators from the record which would support...Read More »
In my senior year of college the physician teaching our pathophysiology class gave the following assignment: “Define acute renal failure (ARF), based on signs, symptoms, lab findings, and cite abnormal laboratory values.”
ACDIS Associate Editorial Director Linnea Archibald sends out “missed connections” emails with questions from Council members on a regular basis. Anyone with experience related to one of the questions was invited to respond and Archibald connected them with the question-asker. In order to share...Read More »
Over and over again, CDI specialists ask: “How do you obtain physician buy-in?”
At Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana, Ill., physician query response rate rose from roughly 50% back in its CDI program’s early days to an estimated 98% today. So how did Carle do it?
