Physician Advisor’s Note: Achieving and maintaining compliance

by Trey La Charité, MD
Compliance represents one of the most important yet underappreciated goals of a CDI program. While my facility’s eight-year-old CDI project did not start out with compliance as an initial objective, we were able to identify and resolve its unintentional oversights. Whether your program is in its infancy or is fully matured, you need to address compliance concerns to shield your facility from substantial, and completely avoidable, risk.