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How Patient Risks Sabotage the Home Health Admission

OASIS Has 132 Questions. 44 Are Patient Risk Factors.

Medicare places great importance on managing risk factors. 

There are 132 questions on OASIS E1 Start of Care and 44 (33%) are risk factor questions. Since the original version released in 1998, the majority of the OASIS assessment...

Posted by Melissa Cott on May 27, 2025

OASIS E & PHQ2-9: Identifying a Depressive Disorder

The new OASIS-E Start of Care OASIS assessment has fifteen (15) sections, A - O. 

Section D, or section 4 of 15, addresses the patient's mood and presence of depression.Download OASIS Outcome Measures Guidance Manual

Depression and anxiety are major health issues among...

Posted by Melissa Cott on Jan 11, 2022