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STOP artificially scoring the OASIS
Manage episode 352019739 series 108471
By Dustin Jones, PT, DPT, GCS, CF-L1: Physical Therapist, Dustin Jones, PT, DPT, GCS, and CF-L1: Physical Therapist. Discovered by Player FM and our community — copyright is owned by the publisher, not Player FM, and audio is streamed directly from their servers. Hit the Subscribe button to track updates in Player FM, or paste the feed URL into other podcast apps.
Julie joins us for a serious CTA to stop artificially inflating and deflating OASIS scores - aka fraudulently representing a patient's clinical condition as being highly impaired on admission and making significant progress throughout POC - when this is FAR from reality. She discusses the negative downstream effects this can have- it only further exacerbates continued pressures from insurance companies, as well as makes it easy for the professional pandemic of clinicians underdosing our patients continue to spread. Give it a listen to hear the entire discussion.
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