Percentage of residents who had a newly occurring stage 2 to 4 pressure ulcer.

Residents who had a pressure ulcer at stage 2 to 4 on their target assessment and no pressure ulcer at stage 2 to 4 on their prior assessment.

All residents (must have assessment in previous quarter).

Residents who had a pressure ulcer greater than or equal to stage 2 on their prior assessment.

Direct standardisation, indirect standardisation Standard Population: 3,000 facilities in 6 U.S. states and 92 residential care facilities and continuing care hospitals in Ontario and Nova Scotia Individual Covariates: Age younger than 65 Personal Severity Index (PSI): Subset 1—Diagnoses, more dependence in toileting, Resource Utilisation Group (RUG): cognitive impairment.

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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