| Subject: | CMS Interpretive Guidance for Restraints and Seclusion, Part II |
| Category: | Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
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| Published: | Fri, 2 May 2008 - 12:00 pm |
| The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid services has recently published updated interpretive guidance for the regulatory changes published in the Hospital Conditions of Participation: Patients' Rights final rule December 8, 2006, revising the restraint and seclusion requirements (42 CFR 482.13 (e), (f), and (g)). http://www.cms.hhs.gov/SurveyCertificationGenInfo/downloads/SCLetter08-18.pdf Within the updated guidance CMS has provided further clarification of what is considered a... The full article is available to StayAlert subscribers. Click here for a free trial subscription. |
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