Author’s response to reviews Title: Evaluation of Data Quality of interRAI Assessments in Home and Community Care Authors:

I would like to resubmit the revised version of the following manuscript for publications in BMC Medical Information and Decision Making: Evaluation of Data Quality of interRAI Assessments in Home and Community Care (MIDM-D-17-00098). I appreciated the thoughtful comments and suggestions put forward by the reviewers and have attempted to address each one. Specific reviewer comments are in bold with my response underneath each one in regular font. Where changes were made, page and line numbers are provided as a reference (revised version, with all changes accepted). One common criticism was a lack of clarity and over-use of abbreviations that made it difficult to read and understand. I have created two tables (tables 1 and 2) to help readers better understand interRAI assessment systems and the variables included in the analyses. I have also removed several unnecessary abbreviations and clarified parts of the Methods section.