Which term measures patient status stability, excluding severely impaired?

• A. Stabilization Computation
• B. Improvement Computation
• C. Monitoring Plan
• D. Exclusion Criteria

Answer: (A)

Measuring how steady a patient’s condition is, while excluding those who are severely impaired, is captured by Stabilization Computation. This term targets the current stability of the patient’s status rather than how much they have improved or declined, and it intentionally leaves out severely impaired cases from the calculation so the measure reflects stability in the non-severely-impaired population.

Improvement Computation would focus on how much the patient has moved toward better status, not just stability. A Monitoring Plan describes what to observe and how often, rather than providing a numerical measure of stability. Exclusion Criteria are rules that determine who cannot receive care, not a metric of patient status.