Evaluation of data quality of interRAI assessments in home and community care

The aim of this project is to describe the quality of assessment data regularly collected in home and community, with techniques adapted from an evaluation of the quality of long-term care data in Canada.

Author: Sophie E. Hogeveen, Jonathan Chen & John P. Hirdes 


Publication Date: October 30, 2017


Description: Despite an increasingly complex client population in the home and community care sectors, the results from this work indicate that data collected using the RAI-HC and the CHA are of an overall quality that may be trusted when used to inform decision-making at the organizational- or policy-level. High quality data and information are vital when used to inform steps taken to improve quality of care and enhance quality of life. This work also provides evidence that a method used to evaluate the quality of data obtained in the long-term care setting may be used to evaluate the quality of data obtained through community-based measures


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Keywords: interRai, Rai-HC, community health assessment, quality, resident assessment instrument - home care, interRAI CHA, assessment, quality

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