Risk Adjustment of Nursing Home Quality Indicators

Risk adjustment of nursing home quality indicators.

The purpose of this study was to develop a method for risk adjusting nursing home quality indicators (QI's). The QI's measure incidence and prevalence of resident-level care processes and outcomes which are indicative of care quality. Risk adjustment was carried out by stratifying residents into risk groups (high and low), calculating QI rates within groups, and then drawing comparisons across ...

Adjustment of nursing home quality indicators

BACKGROUND This manuscript describes a method for adjustment of nursing home quality indicators (QIs) defined using the Center for Medicaid & Medicare Services (CMS) nursing home resident assessment system, the Minimum Data Set (MDS). QIs are intended to characterize quality of care delivered in a facility. Threats to the validity of the measurement of presumed quality of care include baseline ...

Future development of nursing home quality indicators.

Nursing home quality indicators have been developed over the past 10 years to quantify nursing home quality and to draw systematic comparisons between facilities. Although these indicators have been applied widely for nursing home regulation, quality improvement, and public reporting, researchers and stakeholders have raised concerns about their accuracy and usefulness. We critically evaluate n...

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CCRS Quality Indicators Risk Adjustment Methodology

To lead the development and maintenance of comprehensive and integrated health information that enables sound policy and effective health system management that improve health and health care. Introduction This document provides a technical description of the risk adjustment methodology for the Continuing Care Reporting System (CCRS) quality indicators (QIs) implemented by the Canadian Institut...