This indicator provides the percentage of long-term care residents with pain.
Lower is better. It means that a lower percentage of residents had moderate daily pain or horrible/excruciating pain at any frequency.
Data availability:
to (fiscal years)
Geographic coverage
Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, Yukon
Reporting level
Province/Territory, Region, Facility
Calculation
This indicator examines the percentage of residents who had pain. It is calculated by dividing the number of residents who had moderate daily pain or horrible/excruciating pain at any frequency by the number of all residents with valid assessments within the applicable time period.
Unit of Analysis: Resident
Denominator
Residents with valid assessments
Numerator
Residents with moderate pain at least daily or horrible/excruciating pain at any frequency documented on their target assessment
Comments
The long-term care quality indicators use 4 rolling quarters of data for calculations in order to have a sufficient number of assessments for risk adjustment. Since residents are assessed on a quarterly basis, each resident can contribute to the indicator up to 4 times.
General criteria for public reporting of long-term care indictors in Your Health System are as follows:
Data for this indicator is also available in the Quick Stats product Profile of Residents in Residential and Hospital-Based Continuing Care, which includes province-/territory-level results for both the residential and hospital-based continuing care sectors. Please consult the Quick Stats product for more information.