The following white paper demonstrates the importance of implementing a career ladder and/or incentive program for your CDI staff. It provides sample models of each that hospitals can consider and adapt for their own use.
With special guests Laurie Prescott, MSN, RN, CCDS, CDIP, CRC, CDI Education Director for ACDIS, and ACDIS CDI Education Specialists Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, and...
Documentation and coding of severe sepsis matters in terms of patient risk assessment and establishing sepsis as a diagnosis, as well as the effect of such documentation (and subsequent code assignment) on quality measures.
