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Heart Failure Interventions: Guidelines for Clinicians

As clinicians strive for accuracy in implementing OASIS-C, they must have access to resources that will help them complete these new data elements. The following data resources will help in answering your OASIS-C questions: Review of the clinical record that would include physical assessment data, weight trends, and clinical tools and documentation of the heart [...]

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Which standardized tool should we use for monitoring a diabetic patient’s feet?

Q: Which standardized tool should we use for monitoring a diabetic patient’s feet? A: According to the OASIS-C Guidance Manual, a validated standardized screening tool is one that has been scientifically tested and evaluated as being effective in identifying a specified condition or risk in a population with characteristics similar to the patient being evaluated. [...]

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Reality Check: Comprehensive Assessment and Initial Visit

“Solutions” to some of the special issues associated with the initial visit and comprehensive assessment may actually be misconceptions. That’s because those putting forth these solutions may not have read the rules. Here are two common ones with the facts to set them straight. Misconception: If an initial visit can be done prior to start [...]

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Refresher Course on M0100

Clinicians are getting up to speed on OASIS-C. While conducting in-­service education, it might be good to update their knowledge on data elements that did not undergo major change. M0100, reason for assessment (RFA), is one such data element. The following are a few FAQs: When is the proper time to complete the transfer assessment? [...]

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CMS Releases OASIS-C Guidance Manual Errata

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has posted an erratum with corrections to the OASIS-C Guidance Manual. Although it is dated December 10, the ten page document was released yesterday. Find the document here. Analysis of these changes will be available in next week’s edition of Homecare E-News, a weekly e-newsletter for homecare [...]

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Process of Care Data Items

Process of care data items collected at transfer and discharge points may require the clinician completing the assessment to review the entire care episode, defined as the time since the most recent OASIS assessment, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) OASIS-C Guidance Manual. The Guidance Manual states that the purpose of [...]

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