This indicator provides the percentage of long-term care residents who fell in the last 30 days.
Lower is better. It means that a lower percentage of long-term care residents had a fall in the month leading up to their quarterly assessment.
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, Corporation
Calculation
This indicator examines the percentage of residents who fell in the 30 days leading up to the date of their quarterly clinical assessment. It is calculated by dividing the number of residents who had a fall in those 30 days 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 who had a fall in the last 30 days recorded on their target assessment (RAI-MDS 2.0: J4a = 1; interRAI LTCF: J1a = 1, 2)
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.