The following ICD-10 preparation checklist was published in the Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialist's Guide to ICD-10. This sample was examined and approved by the Resource Library Committee in 2023.
This educational poster created by Rebecca "Ali" Williams, RN, BSN, CCDS, manager of documentation integrity at Spartanburg (SC) Regional Medical Center & Village Hospital, explains that in order for coders to accurately capture intracerebral hemorrhage physicians will need to specify the...
There are a number of ways to get CDI information into the hands of your facility’s physicians. The following list offers a number of suggestions...Read More »
It did not take Bonnie I. Epps, MN, RN, manager of the CDI department at Emory Healthcare, Inc., in Atlanta,long to realize that staff physicians...Read More »
The attached Word document offers quick documentation improvement tips for specifying the acuity and type of heart failure. Created by Cindy Ulrich, RN, MSN, this document can be printed out and hung in physician common areas or documentation rooms.
CDI specialists are in general optimistic about the growth of the profession, but not necessarily within their own departments; aren’t involved all that much in RAC defense; use CMI as their primary metric for success; and have found electronic queries beneficial, even though their hospitals are slow to adopt the new technology. Following is an overview of the survey results and Kennedy’s commentary.
