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Chronic care: Restraint use prevalence.
Measure Source
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Nursing Home Quality Initiative.
Tables
1.91 Nursing facility care: Chronic care: Percent of residents in physical restraints, by state, 2002.
Data Source
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Data from the Minimum Data Set. Downloaded from the CMS Nursing Home Compare web site November 2002: http://www.medicare.gov/NHCompare/Include/DataSection/Questions/SearchCriteria.asp.
Denominator
Chronic care residents with a valid target assessment.
Numerator
Residents who were physically restrained daily on target assessment.
Comments
Excludes admission assessments.
Statistics are calculated based on data from five target quarters occurring between 2000 and 2002.
See CMS website for exact measure specification: http://www.cms.hhs.gov/center/quality.aspnhqi/NatlUserMan_v1_1.pdf.
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