Long-Stay Home Care Clients Whose Unpaid Caregivers Experience Distress
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Country
Publishing Organisation
Type of Quality Indicator
IOM Quality Dimension
Domain
Defining Attributes
Definition
Percentage of long-stay home care clients whose unpaid caregivers experience distress in a 1-year period.
Numerator
Total number of home care clients who, at the time of their most recent assessment in the given year, have an unpaid caregiver who is experiencing distress.
Denominator
Total number of long-stay home care clients with a caregiver at the time of their most recent assessment in the given year.
Exclusions
Assessments with "initial assessment" as the reason for the assessment are excluded.
Use of Risk Adjustment
Risk Adjustments
Risk adjusted using following covariates: Activities of Daily Living Self-Performance Hierarchy Scale (ADL Hierarchy); Cognitive Performance Scale (CPS); Changes in Health, End-Stage Disease and Signs and Symptoms (CHESS).
Stratifications
Data Attributes
Type of Data Collection
Data Collection Methods
Resident Assessment Instrument-Home Care (RAI-HC) or interRAI HC assessments.
Frequency of Data Collection
Frequency of Data Collection in Days
Reporting Methods
Public reporting.
Reporting Frequency
Reporting Frequency in Days
Indicator Has Recommended Targets
Source and Reference Attributes
Evidence Source
Health Quality Ontario. Measuring Up 2018: A yearly report on how Ontario's health system is performing, 2018. web.archive.org/web/20240129165200/https://www.hqontario.ca/Portals/0/Documents/pr/measuring-up-2019-en.pdf
Technical Specifications
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