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Published in: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 1/2017

Open Access 01-12-2017 | Research article

Evaluation of data quality of interRAI assessments in home and community care

Authors: Sophie E. Hogeveen, Jonathan Chen, John P. Hirdes

Published in: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making | Issue 1/2017

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Abstract

Background

The aim of this project is to describe the quality of assessment data regularly collected in home and community, with techniques adapted from an evaluation of the quality of long-term care data in Canada.

Methods

Data collected using the Resident Assessment Instrument – Home Care (RAI-HC) in Ontario and British Columbia (BC) as well as the interRAI Community Health Assessment (CHA) in Ontario were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Pearson’s r correlation, and Cronbach’s alpha in order to assess trends in population characteristics, convergent validity, and scale reliability.

Results

Results indicate that RAI-HC data from Ontario and BC behave in a consistent manner, with stable trends in internal consistency providing evidence of good reliability (alpha values range from 0.72-0.94, depending on the scale and province). The associations between various scales, such as those reflecting functional status and cognition, were found to be as expected and stable over time within each setting (r values range from 0.42-0.45 in Ontario and 0.41-0.43 in BC). These trends in convergent validity demonstrate that constructs in the data behave as they should, providing evidence of good data quality. In most cases, CHA data quality matches that of RAI-HC data quality and shows evidence of good validity and reliability. The findings are comparable to the findings observed in the evaluation of data from the long-term care sector.

Conclusions

Despite an increasingly complex client population in the home and community care sectors, the results from this work indicate that data collected using the RAI-HC and the CHA are of an overall quality that may be trusted when used to inform decision-making at the organizational- or policy-level. High quality data and information are vital when used to inform steps taken to improve quality of care and enhance quality of life. This work also provides evidence that a method used to evaluate the quality of data obtained in the long-term care setting may be used to evaluate the quality of data obtained through community-based measures.
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Metadata
Title
Evaluation of data quality of interRAI assessments in home and community care
Authors
Sophie E. Hogeveen
Jonathan Chen
John P. Hirdes
Publication date
01-12-2017
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making / Issue 1/2017
Electronic ISSN: 1472-6947
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-017-0547-9

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