The Resident Assessment Instrument-Minimum Data Set 2.0 quality indicators: a systematic review

The Resident Assessment Instrument-Minimum Data Set 2.0 quality indicators: a systematic review

BACKGROUND The Resident Assessment Instrument-Minimum Data Set (RAI-MDS) 2.0 is designed to collect the minimum amount of data to guide care planning and monitoring for residents in long-term care settings. These data have been used to compute indicators of care quality. Use of the quality indicators to inform quality improvement initiatives is contingent upon the validity and reliability of th...

Affirming the Value of the Resident Assessment Instrument: Minimum Data Set Version 2.0 for Nursing Home Decision-Making and Quality Improvement

BACKGROUND We examined the agreement over time of the physical functioning domains of the Resident Assessment Instrument: Minimum Data Set Version 2.0 (RAI-MDS) and the Functional Independence Measure (FIM) in nursing home residents with dementia. METHODS We completed a secondary analysis of data from a longitudinal quasi-experimental study of residents who could transfer independently or wit...

A minimum data set for chronic venous disease

Definition of a core set of quality indicators for the assessment of HIV/AIDS clinical care: a systematic review

BACKGROUND Several organizations and individual authors have been proposing quality indicators for the assessment of clinical care in HIV/AIDS patients. Nevertheless, the definition of a consensual core set of indicators remains controversial and its practical use is largely limited. This study aims not only to identify and characterize these indicators through a systematic literature review bu...

Minimum Data Set Consistency and Validity 1 Temporal and Geographic variation in the validity and internal consistency of the Nursing Home Resident Assessment Minimum Data Set 2.0