This indicator provides the percentage of long-term care residents whose bladder incontinence worsened.
Lower is better. It means that a lower percentage of residents had worsened bladder continence.
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
Residents whose bladder incontinence worsened (frequency of bladder incontinence increased) on their target assessment compared with their prior assessment.
Unit of Analysis: Resident
Denominator
Residents with valid assessments whose bladder continence could worsen (did not have maximum score on prior assessment)
Numerator
Residents with a greater value for bladder incontinence (RAI-MDS 2.0: H1b; interRAI LTCF: H1) on their target assessment than on their prior 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.
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.