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  • Gerontology
  • Health Services Research
  • Quality Improvement

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  • Development of interRAI's second-generation home care quality indicators (HC-QIs).
  • HC-QIs derived from widely used interRAI community and home care assessments.
  • Refined quality problem specification, updated covariate structure, and introduced two summary scales.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To describe the development of second-generation HC-QIs.
  • To introduce two new summary scales for home care quality assessment.
  • To provide tools for home care agencies to understand and improve performance.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized client-level data from 335,544 clients across Europe, Canada, and the US.
  • Employed a two-step adjustment process for covariance structure and factor analysis.
  • Identified potential HC-QIs, reviewed by industry and interRAI network representatives.

Main Results:

  • Developed 23 multi-dimensional, risk-adjusted HC-QIs covering function, clinical complexity, social life, distress, and service use.
  • Identified two factors: one focused on absence of decline (functional independence) and another on functional improvement (clinical balance).

Conclusions:

  • Introduced two summary HC-QI scales: 'Independence Quality Scale' and 'Clinical Balance Quality Scale'.
  • These scales offer a macro view of local performance for home care agencies.
  • Provide a roadmap for identifying areas needing targeted interventions when performance is suboptimal.