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Home In On Target Data With A Patient Summary Template
Published on Tue May 24, 2011 
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Here's a handy guide to creating a form that keeps you in compliance. Worried your patient summary list won't pass muster? Breathe easy -- the list doesn't have to be complicated. Take a look at this summary template used by Bert Fish Medical Center. "We have used this form to pass Joint Commission surveys," says rehab director Agnes Papa, PT.
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