Tip of the week: Get to know the chronic care measure domains
Contemporary Long-Term Care Weekly, September 2, 2010
Increasingly, SNFs must rely on data and data analysis to objectively view the quality of care delivered to their residents. The data gathered and reported by the quality measure (QM) systems designed for long-term care are information-rich and provide guidance, direction, statistics, frequency, and monitoring of potential quality problems.
Armed with this information, facilities can make positive changes to policies, procedures, practices, and patterns of care to not only improve the quality of care provided to residents, but also improve communication between staff members. For those reasons, it is critical for SNFs to gain familiarity with the chronic care measure domains so they can stay on top of the latest QM systems data and make appropriate adjustments. The domains are as follows:
- Accidents
- Behavior and emotional patterns
- Clinical management
- Cognitive patterns
- Elimination and incontinence
- Infection control
- Nutrition and eating
- Pain management
- Physical functioning
- Psychotropic drug use
- Quality of life
- Skin care
This is an excerpt from the HCPro book, The QM/QI Troubleshooter, Second Edition, by Diane L. Brown.
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