Percent of Low Risk Residents Who Lose Control of Their Bowel or Bladder
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Country
Publishing Organisation
Type of Quality Indicator
IOM Quality Dimension
Domain
Defining Attributes
Definition
Percent of long-stay residents who frequently lose control of their bowel or bladder.
Numerator
Long-stay residents with a selected target assessment that indicates frequently or always incontinence of the bladder.
Denominator
All long-stay residents with a selected target assessment, except those with exclusions.
Exclusions
Target assessment is an admission assessment or a PPS 5-Day assessment. Residents who have any of the following high-risk conditions: Severe cognitive impairment, totally dependent in bed mobility self-performance, totally dependent in transfer self-performance, totally dependent in locomotion on unit self-performance, resident does not qualify as high risk, resident is comatose, resident has an indwelling catheter, resident has an ostomy.
Use of Risk Adjustment
Risk Adjustments
None
Stratifications
None
Data Attributes
Type of Data Collection
Data Collection Methods
Minimum Data Set (MDS) 3.0 Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI).
Frequency of Data Collection
Frequency of Data Collection in Days
Reporting Methods
Nursing Home Care Comparison publicly reported on CMS website of all Medicare and Medicaid US nursing homes. Reports the average adjusted QM values for most recent three quarters. Quality measure reports available at national, state, facility and resident level (providers only). Five-star quality rating system (n=9 QIs) available publicly online.