Physician Queries

Physician response times to queries varies from organization to organization. Some facilities allow a full month for physicians to respond to a...Read More »

The Forms & Tools Committee recently met to review several recently submitted materials for publication in the ACDIS Resource Library. These...Read More »

by Cheryl Codner, RN, CCDS

Brigham and Women’s Hospital is an 800-bed academic medical center in Boston affiliated with Harvard...Read More »

by Marlene Goodwin-Esola, MSN, RNC, NE-BC

Approximately 11 months ago, I accepted the role of the CDI manager in a facility where...Read More »

by Sydni Johnson, RN, BSN, CCDS, and Denice Piwowar, BSN, RN, CCDS
CDI professionals generally consider clinical validation queries...Read More »

​The ACDIS Forum offers a unique opportunity for members to ask questions of their CDI...Read More »

Q: How should organizations handle unanswered queries when the hospitalist originally queried hands off the case to another hospitalist?Read More »

Does the ACDIS/AHIMA “Guidelines for Achieving a Compliant Query Practice” brief support queries that only list one diagnosis, “other,” and “...Read More »

As part of the 10th annual Clinical Documentation Integrity Week, ACDIS conducted a series of interviews with CDI professionals on a variety of...Read More »