Does anyone review inpatient psyche as part of their workflow? We are being asked to explore this and have done a small sample of reviews. We are...Read More »
I have a patient admitted with COVID-19 pneumonia and acute on chronic respiratory failure with hypoxia. The patient denied any chest pain....Read More »
What are your thoughts on mentoring or allowing outside individuals to job shadow CDI staff at your facility? We were recently approached by a...Read More »
I recently had a case where the documented diagnoses were “paraneoplastic syndrome and possible encephalitis with references to both limbic...Read More »
Have you seen reluctance in physicians wanting to respond to queries related to outcome measures? Certain practitioners seem to avoid mentioning...Read More »
Recently, the patient had a two-day length of stay (LOS) on telemetry, no cardiac related symptoms or complaints, no EKG, no troponins, no...Read More »
If a patient is admitted with a gastrointestinal bleed (self-limiting, no treatment/procedures performed or medication changes) within four weeks...Read More »
I’m having trouble determining how I would code an acute myocardial infarction (MI) for subsequent admissions occurring within four weeks of the...Read More »
Our first quarter call was held on February 18, 2021. During the call, we reviewed the results of the most recent CDI Salary Survey along with CDI productivity expectations with ACDIS Associate Editorial Director Melissa Varnavas, Editors Linnea Archibald and Carolyn Riel along with Leadership...