Percentage of residents who fell in the 30 days prior to quarterly target clinical assessment.

Residents who had a fall in the last 30 days recorded on their target assessment.

All residents.

None

Direct standardisation, indirect standardisation. Standard Population: 3,000 facilities in 6 U.S. states and residential care facilities and continuing care hospitals in Ontario and Nova Scotia. Individual covariates: Not totally dependent in transferring; locomotion problem; Personal Severity Index subset 2 (non-diagnoses); any wandering; unsteady gait / cognitive impairment; age younger than 65.

Facility-level stratification: Case Mix Index.

Data availability 2017-21. Resident Assessment Instrument–Minimum Data Set 2.0 (RAI-MDS 2.0) and submitted to the Continuing Care Reporting System (CCRS), or using the interRAI Long-Term Care Facilities (interRAI LTCF) assessment and submitted to the Integrated interRAI Reporting System (IRRS).

Publicly reported at national and provincial/territory level as part of national Continuing Care Reporting System (CCRS), quarterly. Also includes reporting at region, LTCF, corporation, and sector level (not public). The CCRS quality indicators use 4 rolling quarters of data for calculations in order to have a sufficient number of assessments for risk adjustment. Since residents are assessed on a quarterly basis, each resident can contribute to the indicator up to 4 times.

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