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INDICATOR NAME
Name
Activities of Daily Living (ADL)
Alternate Name
Activities of Daily Living (ADL)
 
INDICATOR DESCRIPTION
Description
Average ADL long form score among longstay
home care clients >65 years of age
Indicator Status
Active
HQO Reporting tool/product
Ontario Health Teams: Quality
Dimension
Patient-centred
Type
Outcome
 
DEFINITION AND SOURCE INFORMATION
Unit of Measurement
Ratio
Calculation Methods
Assessments that are not the most recent in the reporting period, for those with multiple assessments.
Numerator including inclusion/exclusion
Value of ADL Long
Denominator including inclusion/exclusion
Total population age 66 years or older with an interRAIHC assessment in the observation period. For home care
clients with >1 assessment, we take the most recent.
Adjustment (risk, age/sex standardization)- detailed
Model-based risk-adjusted via generalized regression (assuming a normal distribution and identity link function)
using individual-level data, controlling for age (continuous) and sex.
Data Source
InterRAI Quality of Life Survey, OHTAM (Ontario Health Teams Attribution Model), Registered Persons Database (RPDB)
Data provided to HQO by
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES)
 
OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION
Caveats and Limitations
ADL Long ranges from 0 to 28, with higher values indicating greater difficulty in performing activities •A lower value (mean score) is desirable for this measure
 
TAGS
Sector
Ontario Health Team
Type
Outcome
Topic
Aging
Dimension
Patient-centred
Source
InterRAI Quality of Life Survey, OHTAM (Ontario Health Teams Attribution Model), Registered Persons Database (RPDB)
 
PUBLISH
Publish Datetime
10/03/2022 11:55:00