Percentage of home health stays in which patients were admitted to an acute care hospital during the 60 days following the start of the home health stay.
Percentage of patients aged 65 years and older who have an advance care plan or surrogate decision maker documented in the medical record or documentation in the medical record that an advance care plan was discussed but the patient did not wish or was not able to name a surrogate decision maker or provide an advance care plan.
The Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS®) Home Health Care Survey, also referred as the "CAHPS Home Health Care Survey" or "Home Health CAHPS" or “HHCAHPS” is a standardized survey instrument and data collection methodology for measuring home health patients ‘perspectives on their home health care in Medicare-certified home health care agencies. AHRQ and CMS participated in the development of the Home Health CAHPS to measure the experiences of those receiving home health care with these three goals in mind:
The Activity Measure for Post Acute Care (AM-PAC) is a functional status assessment instrument developed specifically for use in facility and community dwelling post acute care (PAC) patients. It was built using Item Response Theory (IRT) methods to achieve feasible, practical, and precise measurement of functional status (Hambleton 2000, Hambleton 2005).
Percentage of home health stays in which patients used the emergency department but were not admitted to the hospital during the 60 days following the start of the home health stay.
The percentage of home health episodes of care during which the frequency of the patient´s pain when moving around improved.
Percentage of home health episodes of care during which patients received influenza immunization for the current flu season.
Percentage of healthcare personnel (HCP) who receive the influenza vaccination.
Percentage of home health episodes of care during which patients were determined to have ever received Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Vaccine (PPV).