Home Health & Hospice Week

Documentation will be more important than ever under some of the surprising new items. The newly finalized OASIS C form will include a host of process measures that your clinicians will need to learn like the backs of their hands. The process components are a significant part of OASIS C, Chicago-based regulatory consultant Rebecca Friedman Zuber said in an Eli OASIS C audioconference earlier this year. The soon-to-beimplemented process measures cover these areas: 1. Pressure ulcer potential (M1300 and M1302). M1300 asks whether you assessed the patient for the risk of developing pressure ulcers. If the answer is "yes," it asks whether the assessment was based on an evaluation of clinical factors such as mobility, incontinence, and nutrition or if you used a standardized tool. M1302 asks what you concluded about the patient's pressure ulcer risk. Resource: Two popular pressure ulcer risk assessment tools are the Norton scale and the Braden scale. [...]