100-Day Successful Discharge to the Community
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Care Transitions
Country
United States of America
Publishing Organisation
Veterans Administration
Type of Quality Indicator
Outcome
IOM Quality Dimension
Effectiveness
Domain
Hospitalisation
Defining Attributes
Definition
Define a success as: (a) the patient being discharged to the community from the Skilled Nursing Facility (in this case a CLC) within 100 calendar days of the index hospital discharge, and (b) remain in the community (i.e. alive, and outside of institutional care such as hospital or nursing facility) for at least 30 days following the CLC discharge
Numerator
Denominator
Exclusions
Use of Risk Adjustment
No
Risk Adjustments
Stratifications
Data Attributes
Type of Data Collection
Administrative data
Data Collection Methods
VA and Medicare data
Frequency of Data Collection
Frequency of Data Collection in Days
Reporting Methods
Reporting Frequency
Reporting Frequency in Days
Indicator Has Recommended Targets
No
Source and Reference Attributes
Evidence Source
Manges KA, Medvedeva E, Ersek M, Burke RE. VA nursing home compare metrics as an indicator of skilled nursing facility quality for veterans. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2022 Aug;70(8):2269-2279. doi: 10.1111/jgs.17906. Epub 2022 Jun 9. PMID: 35678768.
Technical Specifications
Link to Measurement Tools
Quality Indicator Confirmed to be Part of a Program Used to Monitor Quality and Safety of Care Among Older People at a Population-Level between 2012-2022
No
Assessed by the Australian Consortium for Aged Care Collaborators as Generally Containing Good Properties (Importance and Scientific Acceptability)
No
Australian Consortium for Aged Care Endorsed
No
Identified by PHARMA-Care Project
No
Upload Date
23 July 2025
Actions
Date Modified 23 July 2025