Patterns revealed by Minimum Data Set entries and what they unearth about patient care can help providers perform better on quality measures, if that data is used to better understand and act on problem areas, according to one nurse assessment expert.
Providers continue to grapple with a range of MDS coding concerns, including an inability of some software systems to capture respiratory therapy services.
Federal regulators sent nursing home operators and their MDS personnel scurrying for favorite reading spots Monday after they released finalized item sets and 450 pages of heavily updated Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI) manual changes.
The debut of the most recent new state dashboard shows the lengths states are going to in order to increase transparency into nursing home quality and operations.