Transfer of Health Information to the Provider Post-Acute Care (PAC)
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Country
Publishing Organisation
Type of Quality Indicator
IOM Quality Dimension
Setting-Specific Domain
Defining Attributes
Definition
The percentage of long-term care home (LTCH) patient stays with a LTCH CARE Data Set discharge assessment indicating that a current reconciled medication list was provided to the subsequent provider at the time of discharge. A process-based measure that assesses whether or not a current reconciled medication list was provided to the subsequent provider when the patient was discharged from a Post-Acute Care setting to a subsequent provider.
Numerator
The number of LTCH patient stays with a LTCH CARE Data Set discharge assessment indicating that a current reconciled medication list was provided to the subsequent provider at the time of discharge.
Denominator
The total number of LTCH patient stays, regardless of payer, ending in discharge to the following settings only: a short-term general hospital, a SNF, intermediate care, home under care of an organised home health service organisation or hospice, hospice in an institutional facility, a swing bed, an IRF, another LTCH, a Medicaid nursing facility, an inpatient psychiatric facility, or a critical access hospital.
Exclusions
Patients/residents who died are not included in this measure
Use of Risk Adjustment
Risk Adjustments
None
Stratifications
None
Collection and Reporting Attributes
Type of Data Collection
Data Collection Methods
Collected using the Minimum Data Set (MDS) 3.0 Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI).
Frequency of Data Collection
Frequency of Data Collection in Days
Reporting Methods
Skilled Nursing Facilities Quality Reporting Program (CMS and Providers). Certification and Survey Provider Enhanced Reports (CASPER) Review and Correct Reports contain facility-level and resident-level measure information Will be reported on CMS Care Compare - delayed due to COVID-19