Proportion of home care clients who experienced a decline in bladder continence (baseline score is less than 5 and lower than follow-up score). Includes clients who developed a new bladder continence problem. Incidence indicator.

Number of home care clients who experienced a decline in bladder continence (baseline score is less than 5 and lower than follow-up score). Includes clients who developed a new bladder continence problem. Incidence indicator.

All home care clients with some difficulty in communication impairment at baseline and both baseline and target assessment (at 6 months).

Adjusted for: difficulty with meal preparation, clinical risk, ADL hierarchy scale score, age over 80 years.

IADL performance scale.

Data collected for the Aged in Home Care (ADHoC) project (2000-2002). Data were collected using the RAI-HC by specially trained assessors, usually nurses, who verify collected information that included direct interviews of home care clients and family members, as well as review of physician reports medical records.

Reporting in publication level for 7 countries: Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands for HC recipients.

Foebel AD, van Hout HP, van der Roest HG, et al. Quality of care in European home care programs using the second generation interRAI Home Care Quality Indicators (HCQIs). BMC Geriatr 2015;15:148.