OASIS Alert
Adverse Events:
Understand OASIS Connection To Avoid Adverse Events
Published on Sun Jan 25, 2004
Adverse event outcome reports rely on information from both start of care and resumption of care OASIS assessments and on OASIS data collected at transfer, death or discharge. The table below indicates for each adverse event outcome the specific OASIS items at each time-point used to construct that measure.
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