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BMC Geriatrics
Quality of care in European home care programs using the second generation interRAI Home Care Quality Indicators (HCQIs)
Research Article
Dinnus Frijters1  Hein P. van Hout1  Henriëtte G. van der Roest1  Pálmi V. Jónsson2  Eva Topinkova3  Roberto Bernabei4  Graziano Onder4  Andrea D. Foebel5  Vjenka Garms-Homolova6  Harriet Finne-Soveri7  John P. Hirdes8 
[1] Department of General Practice and Elderly Care Medicine, EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;Department of Geriatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland;Department of Geriatrics, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic;Department of Geriatrics, Neuroscience and Orthopedics, Catholic University, Rome, Italy;Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden;Department of Geriatrics, Neuroscience and Orthopedics, Catholic University, Rome, Italy;HTW Berlin, University of Applied Sciences in Technology and Economics, Berlin, Germany;National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland;School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada;
关键词: Home care;    InterRAI;    Assessment;    Quality indicators;    Performance measurement;   
DOI  :  10.1186/s12877-015-0146-5
 received in 2015-06-26, accepted in 2015-11-10,  发布年份 2015
来源: Springer
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【 摘 要 】

BackgroundEvaluating the quality of care provided to older individuals is a key step to ensure that needs are being met and to target interventions to improve care. To this aim, interRAI’s second-generation home care quality indicators (HCQIs) were developed in 2013. This study assesses the quality of home care services in six European countries using these HCQIs as well as the two derived summary scales.MethodsData for this study were derived from the Aged in Home Care (AdHOC) study - a cohort study that examined different models of community care in European countries. The current study selected a sub-sample of the AdHOC cohort from six countries whose follow-up data were complete (Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands). Data were collected from the interRAI Home Care instrument (RAI-HC) between 2000 and 2002. The 23 HCQIs of interest were determined according to previously established methodology, including risk adjustment. Two summary measures, the Clinical Balance Scale and Independence Quality Scale were also determined using established methodology.ResultsA total of 1,354 individuals from the AdHOC study were included in these analyses. Of the 23 HCQIs that were measured, the highest proportion of individuals experienced declines in Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADLs) (48.4 %). Of the clinical quality indicators, mood decline was the most prevalent (30.0 %), while no flu vaccination and being alone and distressed were the most prevalent procedural and social quality indicators, respectively (33.4 and 12.8 %). Scores on the two summary scales varied by country, but were concentrated around the median mark.ConclusionsThe interRAI HCQIs can be used to determine the quality of home care services in Europe and identify areas for improvement. Our results suggest functional declines may prove the most beneficial targets for interventions.

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© Foebel et al. 2015

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