As you may have seen, ACDIS published its 2021 CDI Salary Survey last week. From a strictly academic standpoint, the data is interesting, but...Read More »
by Linnea Archibald
Gone are the days when CDI departments largely confined their efforts to the inpatient acute care setting and considered anything else “cutting edge.” As payment methodologies and quality reporting programs expand and change, CDI programs prove their efficacy...Read More »
by Jennifer A. Boles, BS, COC, CRC, CCDS-O
Many healthcare systems are looking at where to expand next in the outpatient and ambulatory medical group settings. Outpatient CDI is often focused on hospital emergency department (ED) and observation settings. Ambulatory CDI is viewed...Read More »
by Kim Conner, BSN, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O
One of my favorite anonymous quotes in the context of growing one’s CDI practice is, “Great things never came from comfort zones.” CDI practice has grown well past what it initially was and continues to develop beyond the traditional inpatient...Read More »
Nearly two million adults are hospitalized with sepsis annually. Of those, roughly 2% had opioid use disorder, according to a Sepsis Alliance Institute...Read More »