The measure reports the percent of long-stay residents who are assessed and/or given, appropriately, the influenza vaccination during the most recent influenza season.

Residents meeting any of the following criteria on the selected influenza vaccination assessment:1. Resident received the influenza vaccine during the most recent influenza season, either in the facility or outside the facility ; or 2.Resident was offered and declined the influenza vaccine; or 3.Resident was ineligible due to medical contraindication(s) (e.g., anaphylactic hypersensitivity to eggs or other components of the vaccine, history of Guillain-Barré Syndrome within 6 weeks after a previous influenza vaccination, bone marrow transplant within the past 6 months).

All long-stay residents with a selected influenza vaccination assessment. This includes all residents who have an entry date on or before March 31 of the most recently completed influenza season and have an assessment with a target date on or after October 1 of the most recently completed influenza season (i.e., the target date must fall on or between October 1 and June 30), except those with exclusions.

Resident's age on target date of selected influenza vaccination assessment is 179 days or less.

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Nursing Home Minimum Data Set (MDS) Resident Assessment Instrument

Public report, available from www.medicare.gov/care-compare/

www.cms.gov/medicare/quality-initiatives-patient-assessment-instruments/nursinghomequalityinits/nhqiqualitymeasures Rivera-Hernandez, M., Kumar, A., Roy, I., Fashaw-Walters, S., & Baldwin, J. A. (2022). Quality of Care and Outcomes Among a Diverse Group of Long-Term Care Residents With Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias. Journal of aging and health, 34(2), 283-296.