This indicator provides the percentage of long-term care residents whose stage 2 to 4 pressure ulcer worsened.
Lower is better. It means that a lower percentage of residents had a stage 2 to 4 pressure ulcer that worsened.
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
This indicator examines the percentage of residents whose stage 2 to 4 pressure ulcer had worsened since the previous assessment. It is calculated by dividing the number of residents whose stage 2 to 4 pressure ulcer worsened by the number of all residents with valid assessments (excluding those who had a stage 4 ulcer on their prior assessment) within the applicable time period.
Unit of Analysis: Resident
Denominator
Residents with valid assessments
Numerator
Residents who have a pressure ulcer at stage 2 to 4 on their target assessment and for whom the stage of pressure ulcer is greater 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.
General criteria for public reporting of long-term care indictors in Your Health System are as follows:
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.