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This e-mail newsletter delivers the answers to your most compelling questions in long-term care. This weekly newsletter will answer all your billing, survey, MDS, compliance, documentation, staffing, and JCAHO questions.

May 12, 2008   (Volume 7, Issue 19)
 
MDS 3.0 item of the week: Using MDS 3.0 interview items to support MDS 2.0 coding activities

Some limited MDS 3.0 interview items can actually be used to help assessors code the MDS 2.0, says Patricia Boyer, MSM, RN, NHA, president of the long-term care consulting firm Boyer and Associates, LLC, in Brookfield, WI.

 
Tip of the week: RAI User's Manual updates

CMS has posted an update to the RAI User’s Manual.

 

Other recently-published articles from Ask SNFInfo:

MDS 2.0 Tip of the Week: Coding item O3, injections
MDS 3.0 update: Section F, Preferences for customary routine and activities
MDS 2.0 Tip of the Week: Coding Item E1, indicators of depression, anxiety, sad mood
MDS 3.0 update: Assessing delirium
MDS 2.0 Tip of the Week: Coding Item H1a, bowel continence self-control categories
MDS 3.0 update: Item E1, psychosis
MDS 2.0 Tip of the Week: Coding Item D1, vision patterns
MDS 3.0 update: Tips on interviewing a resident
MDS 2.0 Tip of the Week: Coding Item AB8, language
MDS 3.0 update: Interviewing skills
MDS 2.0 Tip of the Week: Coding Item ADa, signature of RN assessment coordinator
MDS 3.0 update: Rumor control
MDS 2.0 Tip of the Week: RAP analysis and documentation
MDS 3.0 update: Interviews and time of day
MDS 2.0 tip of the week: Monitoring quality of care via the MDS

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