By Laurie L. Prescott, RN, MSN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CRC
The American Hospital Association’s (AHA) Coding Clinic always produces surprises. Most people remember the day their first child was born, or the day they moved into their home. I remember the day we were allowed...Read More »
Inability to gain weight persisted for months after discharge for many hospitalized COVID-19 patients, according to a study published in the Clinical...Read More »
The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) unveiled the first in a series of new rules designed to protect patients from...Read More »
Our providers tend to use the term “RDS” in their documentation to describe all “respiratory distress,” “respiratory distress syndrome of newborn,” and “acute respiratory failure.” Often, we find ourselves querying to clarify/remove RDS when it is in fact respiratory distress and not respiratory...Read More »
As CDI Week 2021 gets closer (t-minus 66 days at the time of this article’s writing!), we’re getting more and more excited to celebrate with this year’s theme of CDI Kitchen: Recipes for a Successful Program. If you haven’t already, mark your...Read More »
The ACDIS Leadership Council debuted September 2019 to connect forward-thinking CDI supervisors, managers, and directors through personalized insight-sharing and networking experiences that forge valuable relationships, advance strategic...Read More »
