Having a zero pain comparison might not be a good thing. The score is coming from
section J of the MDS. Facilities that do a better job assessing pain will have a
higher score than facilities who do not recognize resident pain. Your goal should be
to recognize and treat pain for your residents. Care plan the pain management for
your resident. Your residents will have some pain being freshly post-op and that pain
needs to be recorded on the MDS. A goal of zero pain would not be realistic for your
facility's QI, in my opinion.
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From: "Holbeny, Marylynn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Mar 8, 2004 6:24 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:
I have been doing some comparisons in the Medicare Nursing Home web site on pain
management. Out nursing home scores 20% for Residents with pain. I noticed some
Nursing homes have 0%. How do they get this score and how can I get our Nursing Home
to get there. Do these comparisons come from the information on the MDS from the pain
section? In our facility we would like to decrease our pain score for a quaility
improvement project. We get so many acute patients here on the TCU that it is going
to be hard to get the pain score down? I would appreciate any input. Mary lynn
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