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In our previous posts about the Case-Mix Index (CMI), we explored what it conveys and how it is calculated. Today we will discuss who looks at that...
Last week, we looked at Diagnosis-Related Groups and how they receive codes based on cost and complexity. These numbers play a key role in the...
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Hygienic Home for the Holidays
Did everyone notice the uptick in respiratory illnesses (including COVID) that started about a week and a half after Thanksgiving? Many of us might...
The Case-Mix Index (CMI) has been defined in many ways. One definition might read "a relative value assigned to a diagnostic-related group." Another...
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Career Focus: Ambulatory Infection Preventionist
Ambulatory health care facilities, such as outpatient surgery and diagnostic centers, face new regulations requiring the active presence of an...
No profession knows more about disease transmission than those working in infection control and prevention. And yet, due to a complex network of...
Among all tracked hospital-associated infections, the one that seems to have the lowest rates are surgical site infections. While this relative...