OASIS Alert
OBQI:
Show Your Staff How Their Answers Lead To Outcomes
Published on Wed May 26, 2004 
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Before you decide to change care behavior, be sure you're answering the underlying question correctly.
Inaccurate answers to the OASIS questions on which outcome results depend is a major factor in many HHA's unsatisfactory numerical results, experts agree. If your perception of patient outcomes doesn't agree with the numbers, you may want to focus first on the M0 question involved, they suggest.
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