title: Getting ready for MDS 3.0: patient evaluation takes a new turn.
abstract: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has recently revised the Minimum Data Set (MDS), a standardized assessment tool that the agency requires all nursing facilities to perform on all residents. Changes in the patient-assessment and data-collection processes of the new version, MDS 3.0, will be implemented on October 1, 2010, and will provide practitioners with enhanced information that optimizes their care of long-term care residents.
authors.affiliation: Greensboro, North Carolina.
authors.forename: Caren McHenry
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Martin
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D014487:Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.; D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods; D015577:Geriatric Assessment / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009735:Nursing Homes / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care; D014481:United States