As part of the eighth annual Clinical Documentation Improvement Week, ACDIS has conducted a series of interviews with CDI professionals on a variety of emerging industry topics. Irina Zusman, RHIA, CCS, CCDS, director of HIM coding and CDI initiatives at NYU Langone Health in New York, a member...Read More »
Q:We recently had a patient come in with acute kidney injury (AKI). The patient had clinical indicators for CKD, but their baseline creatinine was unknown. The patient has daily labs for 72 hours already, so would it be...Read More »
We’ve compiled the latest updates as to what is defined as either a complication or comorbidity (CC) or a major complication or comorbidity (MCC).Read More »
A new risk model, published in a recent study in JAHA, provides a simple way to determine whether acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients are at high risk for hospital readmission.Read More »
Q: I was reading the Q&A from CDI Strategies, , and I wanted to check whether I’m misinterpreting it. It seems that you are insinuating that vasopressors or...Read More »
