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Guard Against OASIS Errors For Stroke Patients

Published on Tue Jul 28, 2009

Patients' self-reported medical histories take a spin after a stroke, new study says. With OASIS C around the corner, now's the time for staff to brush up on their patient medical history skills. While questioning the patient is often useful in gathering her medical history for OASIS and medical records, it may not be the best way to track older adults who have suffered strokes. The responses of older adults who are asked whether they had a stroke frequently do not agree with diagnoses obtained by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain, according to a report in the July print issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the Journal of the American Medical Association/Archives journals. "In general, self-reports on medical conditions that are well defined and relatively easy to diagnose often have a high positive predictive value, in contrast to conditions characterized by complex symptoms," the authors write. "Stroke [...]
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