Welcome to the Home Health OASIS Review Blog!
Tips, notes, news, and tidbits in the home health industry
Hello there. Thanks for stopping by!
First thing’s first, this blog/website is for educational purposes only.
In these early stages of the blog, the focus will mainly be on how to improve the accuracy of scoring the much dreaded home health OASIS document. But I plan on covering tips and resources to help improve patient care and non-clinical matters outside of OASIS review.
M1400: When is the patient dyspneic or noticeably Short of Breath?
Item intent: Identifies the level of exertion/activity that results in a patient’s dyspnea or shortness of breath I’ll be straight up with you all right away. This item really, really frustrates me as a QA reviewer. This isn’t a new item, but it is very often scored incorrectly. Very often! I think there are some…
OASIS-E Home Health Data Set
The draft version of OASIS-E is here. Lots of changes are coming! It should be noted right away that this is the draft version and it is not finalized yet, so there are some changes that could happen before OASIS-E goes live on January 1st of 2021 January 1st of 2022. (The COVID pandemic has…
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