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burchfield96

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List the three criteria for determining if a long-term resident has experienced a significant change in condition.

Question 2

The first cancer registry was established where?
 A) Chicago, as a pilot project of The Joint Commission
  B) Connecticut Hospital
  C) Washington, D.C., by the National Institutes of Health
  D) Yale-New Haven Hospital



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Answer to Question 1

Federal regulations define a significant change as a major change in the resident's status that:
will not normally resolve itself without intervention by staff or by implementing standard disease-related clinical interventions, is not self-limiting (for de-clines)
impacts on more than one area of the resident's health status
requires interdisciplinary review and/or revision of the care plans (CMS, 2012)


Answer to Question 2

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