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Audit your ACUTE CARE HOSPITALIZATION CHARTS WITH THIS TOOL
Published on Sat Jan 21, 2006 
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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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