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Audit your ACUTE CARE HOSPITALIZATION CHARTS WITH THIS TOOL
Published on Sat Jan 21, 2006
Quality Improvement Organizations are asking you to reduce acute care hospitalizations, and pay for performance will make your outcomes more important than ever.
Jumpstart your work on this hard-to-change measure.
Agencies looking for a tool to help in their focused clinical record review for improving this outcome (see OASIS Alert, Vol. 5, No. 12 and Vol. 6, No. 1) can get a helping hand from the Iowa Foundation for Medical Care.
Use these audit questions during the investigation and/or the monitoring phase of your outcome-based quality improvement efforts.
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