Clinical & Coding

Q: What clinical information can be used to support the reported diagnosis of...Read More »

In response to...Read More »

Q: I’ve been told that if there are clinical indicators to support that CKD...Read More »

Over the past couple months, ACDIS has been running a series of polling questions about the staffing in different departments—from nurses, to...Read More »

On February 23, 2016, the Journal of the American Medical Association published new clinical definitions for sepsis and septic shock, dubbed “...Read More »

by Rachelle Musselman, BSN, RN, Jorde Spitler, BSN, RN, Daniel Lantis, BSN, RN, Joseph E. Ross, MD, and Thomas A. Taghon, DO, MHA
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by Julian Everett, RN, BSN, CDIP
Sepsis affects more than 1.7 million adults in the United States each year, and it’s estimated to...Read More »

According to the 2018 CDI Week Industry Survey, which included an extended section on CDI staffing practices, only 36.56% of respondents said they...Read More »

by Sarah Nehring, CCS, CCDS
The last thing a query writer wants is to provoke a defensive response, but in the current healthcare...Read More »

By Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS
The American Hospital Association (AHA) Coding Clinic, Second Quarter 2019, will likely make...Read More »