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Anticipate 20 Care Area Triggers With This Handy Cheat-Sheet

Published on Mon Mar 16, 2015

Coding these items in certain ways may (or may not) become care area triggers.

Make your job easier by using this handy quick-reference chart to code the MDS 3.0 more accurately.

*Source: RAI Manual v1.12R, Chapter 4.

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