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      Development of mental health quality indicators (MHQIs) for inpatient psychiatry based on the interRAI mental health assessment.

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          Outcome quality indicators are rarely used to evaluate mental health services because most jurisdictions lack clinical data systems to construct indicators in a meaningful way across mental health providers. As a result, important information about the effectiveness of health services remains unknown. This study examined the feasibility of developing mental health quality indicators (MHQIs) using the Resident Assessment Instrument - Mental Health (RAI-MH), a clinical assessment system mandated for use in Ontario, Canada as well as many other jurisdictions internationally.

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          Reliability of the interRAI suite of assessment instruments: a 12-country study of an integrated health information system

          John P Hirdes, Gunnar Ljunggren, John Morris … (2008)
          Background A multi-domain suite of instruments has been developed by the interRAI research collaborative to support assessment and care planning in mental health, aged care and disability services. Each assessment instrument comprises items common to other instruments and specialized items exclusive to that instrument. This study examined the reliability of the items from five instruments supporting home care, long term care, mental health, palliative care and post-acute care. Methods Paired assessments on 783 individuals across 12 nations were completed within 72 hours of each other by trained assessors who were blinded to the others' assessment. Reliability was tested using weighted kappa coefficients. Results The overall kappa mean value for 161 items which are common to 2 or more instruments was 0.75. The kappa mean value for specialized items varied among instruments from 0.63 to 0.73. Over 60% of items scored greater than 0.70. Conclusion The vast majority of items exceeded standard cut-offs for acceptable reliability, with only modest variation among instruments. The overall performance of these instruments showed that the interRAI suite has substantial reliability according to conventional cut-offs for interpreting the kappa statistic. The results indicate that interRAI items retain reliability when used across care settings, paving the way for cross domain application of the instruments as part of an integrated health information system.
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            Comprehensive clinical assessment in community setting: applicability of the MDS-HC.

            J. D. Morris, J. Hirdes, R Gilgen … (1997)
            To describe the results of an international trial of the home care version of the MDS assessment and problem identification system (the MDS-HC), including reliability estimates, a comparison of MDS-HC reliabilities with reliabilities of the same items in the MDS 2.0 nursing home assessment instrument, and an examination of the types of problems found in home care clients using the MDS-HC. Independent, dual assessment of clients of home-care agencies by trained clinicians using a draft of the MDS-HC, with additional descriptive data regarding problem profiles for home care clients. Reliability data from dual assessments of 241 randomly selected clients of home care agencies in five countries, all of whom volunteered to test the MDS-HC. Also included are an expanded sample of 780 home care assessments from these countries and 187 dually assessed residents from 21 nursing homes in the United States. The array of MDS-HC assessment items included measures in the following areas: personal items, cognitive patterns, communication/hearing, vision, mood and behavior, social functioning, informal support services, physical functioning, continence, disease diagnoses health conditions and preventive health measures, nutrition/hydration, dental status, skin condition, environmental assessment, service utilization, and medications. Forty-seven percent of the functional, health status, social environment, and service items in the MDS-HC were taken from the MDS 2.0 for nursing homes. For this item set, it is estimated that the average weighted Kappa is .74 for the MDS-HC and .75 for the MDS 2.0. Similarly, high reliability values were found for items newly introduced in the MDS-HC (weighted Kappa = .70). Descriptive findings also characterize the problems of home care clients, with subanalyses within cognitive performance levels. Findings indicate that the core set of items in the MDS 2.0 work equally well in community and nursing home settings. New items are highly reliable. In tandem, these instruments can be used within the international community, assisting and planning care for older adults within a broad spectrum of service settings, including nursing homes and home care programs. With this community-based, second-generation problem and care plan-driven assessment instrument, disability assessment can be performed consistently across the world.
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              Minimum data set for home care: a valid instrument to assess frail older people living in the community.

              Thalita Carrara, F Landi, … (2000)
              Optimal care for frail elderly patients depends on comprehensive assessment. This is especially true in the complex setting of interdisciplinary home care programs. To facilitate comprehensive assessment, as well as to generate a useful, policy-relevant patient database, standardized, multidimensional, and validated instruments are very helpful. The aim of the present study was to demonstrate that the Minimum Data Set assessment instrument for Home Care (MDS-HC) can be used to detect functional and cognitive impairment as defined by analogous research instruments. This was a cross-sectional correlation study. We studied 95 patients admitted to home care services of the Health Care Agency of Bergamo (Italy). The MDS-HC form was completed for all patients by well-trained nurses, independently of and with nurses blinded to the results from the research rating scales. The Barthel Activities of Daily Living (ADL) Index, the Instrumental Activities of Daily Living of Lawton (IADL), and the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) were considered the gold standard. Agreement between the MDS-HC scales and the research rating scales was assessed with Pearson's correlation coefficient. This coefficient was 0.74 for MDS-ADL versus Barthel Index, 0.81 for MDS-IADL versus Lawton Index, and 0.81 for Cognitive Performance Scale versus MMSE, indicating an excellent agreement. The MDS-HC scales, when performed by trained nurses using recommended protocols, provide a valid measure of function and cognitive status in frail home care patients. These findings point out the overall validity of the functional and clinical data contained in the MDS-HC assessment. Use of the MDS-HC gives the unique opportunity of setting up a database, a prerequisite for all epidemiological evidence-based medicine studies.
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                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): BMC Health Serv Res
                Title: BMC health services research
                Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
                ISSN (Electronic): 1472-6963
                ISSN (Print): 1472-6963
                Publication date (Electronic): Jan 10 2013
                Volume: 13
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                [1 ] School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave West, Waterloo N2L 3G1, Canada. chris.perlman@uwaterloo.ca
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                Publisher Item ID: 1472-6963-13-15
                DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-13-15
                PMC ID: 3560122
                PubMed ID: 23305286
                SO-VID: d8592d8f-cfbf-4743-9db7-fc82b21988e4
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