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INDICATOR NAME
Name
Cognitive impairment (contextual indicator)
Alternate Name
Cognitive impairment (contextual indicator)
 
INDICATOR DESCRIPTION
Description
Proportion of long-stay home care clients >65 years of age that had a cognitive performance scale value equal to 3 or more
Indicator Status
Active
HQO Reporting tool/product
Ontario Health Teams: Quality
Dimension
Patient-centred
Type
Outcome
 
DEFINITION AND SOURCE INFORMATION
Unit of Measurement
Percentage
Calculation Methods
Assessments that are not the most recent in the reporting period, for those with multiple assessments.
Numerator including inclusion/exclusion
Clients with a cognitive performance scale equal to 3 or more
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 logistic regression 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
A lower value (%) 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 13:36:00