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Home health agencies are treating more obese patients who have difficulty performing simple personal care tasks and are at increased risk of pressure ulcers and infections....
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The percentage of cases (19%) that had obesity as a risk factor in M0290 (high risk factors) was 4 percentage points higher in 2007 than in 2002, and the percentage...
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CMS says it may change the term “heavy smoking” to “smoking” in the OASIS question M0290 (high risk factors) – but not for two years....
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Don't be surprised if you see more back injuries among your staff....
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Don't expect your patients with urinary tract infections to report daily or intractable pain during their OASIS assessments. According to our analysis of data from benchmark vendors Outcome Concept Systems,...
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With hospitalization due to wound infection guaranteeing a home visit under the new Medicare survey protocols [CSA 04/03], you should pay extra attention to the 25% of your patients that...
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Scratch M0600 (patient behaviors) and you could be losing the only question on your assessment forms that asks about sleep disturbances and recent change in appetite or weight....
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They wait in the shadows of your patients' most common primary diagnoses -- ready to strike. Clinicians don't notice them in their rush to achieve other goals....
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Home health patients with a heavy smoking problem or history do take longer to heal and are more likely to possess other risk factors, like alcohol dependency, confirms data from...
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Marking "yes" to the risk factor "obesity" on question M0290 may not impact the size of your Medicare payments, but it likely will require your HHA to schedule more visits....
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When a patient loses bladder control, don't assume -- as many clinicians do -- that urinary incontinence is to blame. ...
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Using OASIS data supplied by nearly 700 of its home health agency clients, Seattle-based benchmark vendor Outcome Concept Systems recently determined the most common safety and sanitation hazards experienced during...
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Think obesity is just a hospitalization issue? Think again. Continue to ignore the growing epidemic of patient obesity ¬(obesity rates more than doubled in the last 20 years an are...
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