Ability to Communicate Has Worsened
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Country
Publishing Organisation
Type of Quality Indicator
IOM Quality Dimension
Domain
Defining Attributes
Definition
Percent of residents whose ability to communicate has worsened.
Numerator
Making self understood, and ability to understand others, has worsened.
Denominator
All residents.
Exclusions
Not making decisions regarding tasks of daily life-Coma. End-stage disease (<= 6 months to live). Palliative care. Making self understood and ability to understand =4 at prior assessment.
Use of Risk Adjustment
Risk Adjustments
None
Stratifications
Resthome care, dementia, hospital care, and psychogeriatric care.
Data Attributes
Type of Data Collection
Data Collection Methods
Inter-RAI-LTCF. 90 days. Minimum of two assessments needed >90 days and less than 300 days apart, with latest assessment occurring in the reporting quarter. Resident in same facility.
Frequency of Data Collection
Frequency of Data Collection in Days
Reporting Methods
Publicly reported, quarterly, online using interactive dashboard by; all care levels, LTCF care level, dementia level of care, hospital level of care and psychogeriatric level of care. Reported also at district health board region, provider and LTCF level, to allow benchmarking against national average and prior quarter reporting.