OASIS Alert
OASIS Outcome Measures
Published on Sun Nov 04, 2012
Improvement in Ambulation/Locomotion is one of nine publicly reported Outcome Measures based on OASIS data. Your responses to M1860 -- Ambulation/Locomotion make up the data used to measure improvement in ambulation. This measure calculates whether patients improve in their ability to ambulate between start of care and discharge
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