OASIS Alert
Quality Improvement:
Home Health Agencies Raise The Bar
Published on Fri Mar 26, 2004 
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Even though your agency's results improved on the 11 quality measures publicized in Home Health Compare, so did your competition's. A comparison of the old numbers with the new March 4 update shows improvement in eight measures and no change in three. To help you focus clinicians' attention on important OASIS responses, the chart includes the M0 question on which the numbers depend.
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