by Alba Kuqi, MD, CICA, CCS, CDIP, CCDS, CRCR, CSMC
In their review of the medical record, CDI professionals aim to reconstruct the patient story from admission to discharge by examining, understanding,...Read More »
As part of the ninth annual Clinical Documentation Integrity Week, ACDIS conducted a series of interviews with CDI professionals on a variety of emerging industry topics. Keri Miller, RN, BSN, CCDS, a CDI specialist at McLaren Healthcare in Lansing, Michigan, a member of the Michigan ACDIS local...Read More »
More than once, I have observed providers document both depression and bipolar disorder together. Although these diagnoses share similarities, they are not interchangeable.
As part of the ninth annual Clinical Documentation Integrity Week, ACDIS conducted a series of interviews with CDI professionals on a variety of emerging industry topics. Rachelle Buol, RHIA, the director of coding and CDI at UW Health in Madison, Wisconsin, and a member of the 2019 CDI Week...Read More »
Sepsis-3 is celebrating its fourth birthday this year, and while it can be hard to judge the success or failure of a child until it’s forty, one can at least take an early look to make sure the kid isn’t tearing wings off flies. So, what do we...Read More »
As part of the ninth annual Clinical Documentation Integrity Week, ACDIS conducted a series of interviews with CDI professionals on a variety of emerging industry topics. Terry Ann Simmons, MSN, RN, CCRN-K, CCDS, a CDI specialist at Hartford Healthcare HOCC Campus in New Britain, Connecticut,...Read More »
A few years ago, there was a change of attitude within seizure medicine that manifested itself as new terminology. The older term “pseudoseizure” was replaced by the phrase “psychogenic non-epileptogenic seizure.” The theory behind the change is...Read More »
As part of the ninth annual Clinical Documentation Integrity Week, ACDIS conducted a series of interviews with CDI professionals on a variety of emerging industry topics. Janie Brown, RN, CCDS, who is the director of clinical documentation accuracy at Community Health Network in Indianapolis,...Read More »
