Performance measures for home healthcare.Assisted living as·sist·ed living n. A living arrangement in which people with special needs, especially older people with disabilities, reside in a facility that provides help with everyday tasks such as bathing, dressing, and taking medication. and skilled nursing providers forming closer relationships with home healthcare will find quality measurement moving into that realm, as well. The National Quality Forum has released a set of voluntary home health performance measures, providing consumers, providers, and discharge planners a guide for gauging the quality of care in this popular setting. The performance measures help evaluate: * Improvement in ambulation/locomotion * Improvement in bathing * Improvement in transferring * Improvement in management of oral medications * Improvement in pain interfering with activity * Improvement in status of surgical wounds * Improvement in dyspnea dyspnea /dysp·nea/ (disp-ne´ah) labored or difficult breathing.dyspne´ic paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea * Improvement in urinary incontinence Urinary Incontinence Definition Urinary incontinence is unintentional loss of urine that is sufficient enough in frequency and amount to cause physical and/or emotional distress in the person experiencing it. * Incidence of pressure ulcers * Emergent care for wound infections or deteriorating wound status * Emergent care for improper medication administration or medication side effects Side effects Effects of a proposed project on other parts of the firm. * Emergent care for hypo/hyperglycemia * Acute care hospitalization hospitalization /hos·pi·tal·iza·tion/ (hos?pi-t'l-i-za´shun) 1. the placing of a patient in a hospital for treatment. 2. the term of confinement in a hospital. rate The standards represent the consensus of more than 250 healthcare providers, consumer groups, professional associations, purchasers, federal agencies, and research and quality improvement organizations. |
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