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Overview
Using MDS Quality Indicators to Improve Outcomes is designed to be used by your staff immediately upon purchase. All MDS QIs are covered in the 11 Monitoring plans, with corresponding Data Retrieval Worksheets. The worksheets get your staff immediately collecting data on the areas that the MDS QIs indicate need for improvement. Monitoring plans examine care delivery in areas such as nutrition, skin care, and medication use. Plus you'll get expert guidance on developing an ongoing quality improvement process. This book supports a team process to successfully improve care delivery systems.The book contains black-and-white illustrations.
Synopsis
Using MDS Quality Indicators to Improve Outcomes is designed to be used by your staff immediately upon purchase. All MDS QIs are covered in the 11 Monitoring plans, with corresponding Data Retrieval Worksheets. The worksheets get your staff immediately collecting data on the areas that the MDS QIs indicate need for improvement. Monitoring plans examine care delivery in areas such as nutrition, skin care, and medication use. Plus you'll get expert guidance on developing an ongoing quality improvement process. This book supports a team process to successfully improve care delivery systems.
Booknews
Minimum Data Set Quality indicators (MDS QIs) are being increasingly used by HCFA and state agencies to provide benchmarking comparison reports to long term care facilities. This book is designed to help facility staff use MDS QIs to improve care. After a discussion of the quality improvement process, the bulk of the volume consists of monitoring plans and corresponding data retrieval worksheets on such concerns as resident falls and injuries, behavior management, resident medication, incontinence management, skin integrity, nutrition, infection control, etc. Spiral wire binding. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.