| Subject: | CMS Releases Draft of MDS 3.0 |
| Category: | Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
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| Published: | Wed, 23 Jan 2008 - 06:00 am |
| The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released a draft version of the Long Term Care Resident Assessment Instrument Version 3.0 of the MDS (Minimum Data Set). According to CMS, the rationale for revising the MDS came from several sources. Nursing home providers were concerned that the MDS was not clinically up to date, valid and relevant. Nursing home staffs complained of a time burden in completing the MDS without clear benefit and some MDS items were described as... The full article is available to StayAlert subscribers. Click here for a free trial subscription. |
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