Scenario: A resident develops a stage 4 pressure ulcer after admission to a long-term care facility. Plaintiff counsel argues the facility failed to prevent it. Defense counsel argues the ulcer was clinically unavoidable. Both positions hinge on the same federal regulation. The question is what the regulation actually says, and how the medical record measures
Unavoidable pressure ulcer claims live and die by the record originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
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