Percent of Residents Who Have Depressive Symptoms
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Country
Publishing Organisation
Type of Quality Indicator
IOM Quality Dimension
Domain
Defining Attributes
Definition
Percentage of long-stay residents who have symptoms of depression during the 2-week period preceding the assessment date.
Numerator
Long-stay residents with a selected target assessment where the target assessment (interview either by resident or staff) meets either of the following two conditions: little interest or pleasure in doing things half or more of the days over the last two weeks OR feeling down, depressed, or hopeless half or more of the days over the last two weeks.
Denominator
All long-stay residents with a selected target assessment, except those with exclusions.
Exclusions
Resident is comatose or comatose status is missing.
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.