In this edition of CDI Strategies, readers will find two articles asking for feedback regarding physician engagement activities (one an invitation to share success stories with ACDIS Editor Linnea Archibald and the other to participate in survey about physician engagement). As noted in those articles, physician engagement repeatedly tops the list of CDI challenges.
Why?
“I strongly believe that physicians want to do the right thing,” wrote Kristie Perry, RN, MHSA, CCDS, CCS, a CDI specialist at Erlanger Health System in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in her 2017 CDI Week Q&A. But just like everyone these days, physicians get pulled in 100 different directions and have 1,000 different distractions.
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