Improved Ability to Communicate

Identifying Attributes

Care Settings
Residential Aged Care
Country
Canada
Publishing Organisation
Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI): Long-Term Care Indicators
Type of Quality Indicator
Outcome
IOM Quality Dimension
Effectiveness
Domain
Behavioural Symptoms

Defining Attributes

Definition

Percentage of residents whose ability to communicate improved on their target assessment compared with their prior assessment.

Numerator

Residents with a lower combined score for ability to understand others and making self understood on their target assessment compared with their prior assessment.

Denominator

Residents with valid assessments whose communication could improve (did not have minimum score on prior assessment).

Exclusions

Residents who are comatose or end-of-life.

Use of Risk Adjustment
Yes
Risk Adjustments

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: Personal Severity Index (PSI): Subset 1 — Diagnoses, age younger than 65.

Stratifications

Facility-level stratification: Cognitive Performance Scale.

Data Attributes

Type of Data Collection
Standardised clinical data
Data Collection Methods

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
90 days
Frequency of Data Collection in Days
90
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. Retired.

Reporting Frequency
Quarterly
Reporting Frequency in Days
91
Indicator Has Recommended Targets
No

Source and Reference Attributes

Link to Measurement Tools
Quality Indicator Confirmed to be Part of a Program Used to Monitor Quality and Safety of Care Among Older People at a Population-Level between 2012-2022
Yes
Assessed by the Australian Consortium for Aged Care Collaborators as Generally Containing Good Properties (Importance and Scientific Acceptability)
No
Australian Consortium for Aged Care Endorsed
No
Identified by PHARMA-Care Project
No
Upload Date
12 March 2025