Falls in the Last 30 Days in Long-Term Care
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Country
Publishing Organisation
Type of Quality Indicator
IOM Quality Dimension
Domain
Defining Attributes
Definition
Percentage of residents who fell in the 30 days prior to quarterly target clinical assessment.
Numerator
Residents who had a fall in the last 30 days recorded on their target assessment.
Denominator
All residents.
Exclusions
None
Use of Risk Adjustment
Risk Adjustments
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.
Stratifications
Facility-level stratification: Case Mix Index.
Data Attributes
Type of Data Collection
Data Collection Methods
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).
Frequency of Data Collection
Frequency of Data Collection in Days
Reporting Methods
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.