Most organizations evaluate performance by looking at calendar year data, so set aside some time in January to run some reports and analyze your program. If you’re not the data manager for your program, make an appointment to sit down with your data person/report developer/manager to review...Read More »
There is a poster that I’ve seen in several hospital departments around the country: “TEAM: Together Everyone Achieves More.” The problem, as I see it, is that developing a team takes more than just a poster. It takes collaboration, patience, and...Read More »
The rift between CDI and HIM professionals can sometimes feel too great to cross.
Nevertheless, documentation improvement is not “an us versus them concept; it’s a we concept,” says Colleen Stukenberg, MSN, RN, CMSRN, CCDS, a member of the ACDIS advisory board and clinical...Read More »
CDI programs are maturing, moving beyond review primarily of acute care Medicare patients. Two areas some hospitals have chosen to explore are OB/GYN and pediatrics.
All physicians benefit from CDI education, and all specialties need to document severity of illness with appropriate ICD-9-...Read More »
Karolyn Skudlarek, RN, and the CDI staff at St. Cloud (MN) Hospital have performed reviews of OB/ newborn documentation since they started the CDI program in February 2008.A 489-bed facility (average daily census of 307 beds), St. Cloud employs three CDI reviewers.
Those working in CDI and quality improvement (QI)/ core measure review may have to rethink the old adage of playing separate roles. As Shakespeare writes in As You Like It, “All the world’s a stage … and all are merely players. … One man in his time plays many parts.”
