As part of the fifteenth annual Clinical Documentation Integrity Week, ACDIS conducted a series of interviews with CDI professionals on a variety of emerging industry topics. Coral F. Fernandez, RN, CCDS, CCS, the system CDI auditor/educator at Baptist Health System, answered these...Read More »
Q: We are in the process of placing personal goals for clinic CDI specialists (i.e., CDI specialists who are reviewing clinic notes). One of our goals is to establish an appropriate query rate. In your experience, what is a good query rate for the clinic?Read More »
Q: We are in the process of placing personal goals for clinic CDI specialists (i.e., CDI specialists who are reviewing clinic notes). One of our goals is to establish an appropriate query rate. In your experience, what is a good query rate for the clinic?Read More »
Q: I am working in conjunction with a sepsis coordinator for my organization and we are putting together a business case as to why we need an organizational definition of sepsis. I know that several other organizations have mentioned that they were able to accomplish this. Can you...Read More »