Quality Measures
Home Health Quality Initiative Quality Measures for Public Reporting
| OASIS Outcome Measure | Consumer Language |
|---|---|
| Improvement in upper body dressing | Patients who get better at getting dressed |
| Improvement in bathing | Patients who get better at bathing |
| Stabilization in bathing | Patients who stay the same (don't get worse) at bathing |
| Improvement in toileting | Patients who get better getting to and from the toilet |
| Improvement in ambulation/locomotion | Patients who get better at walking or moving around |
| Improvement in transferring | Patients who get better at getting in and out of bed |
| Improvement in management of oral medications | Patients who get better at taking their medicines correctly (by mouth) |
| Improvement in confusion frequency | Patients who are confused less often |
| Improvement in pain interfering with activity | Patients who have less pain when moving around |
| Acute care hospitalization | Patients who had to be admitted to the hospital |
| Any emergent care provided | Patients who need urgent, unplanned medical care |
Descriptive Quality Measures
- Improvement in Speech and Language
- Improvement in Pain Interfering with Activity
- Improvement in Number of Surgical Wounds
- Improvement in Status of Surgical Wounds
- Improvement in Cognitive Functioning
- Improvement in Anxiety Level
- Improvement in Behavior Problem Frequency
- Stabilization in Management of Oral Medications
- Stabilization in Speech and Language
- Stabilization in Cognitive Functioning
- Stabilization in Anxiety Level
Risk-Adjusted Quality Measures
- Improvement in Grooming
- Improvement in Upper Body Dressing
- Improvement in Lower Body Dressing
- Improvement in Bathing
- Improvement in Toileting
- Improvement in Transferring
- Improvement in Ambulation/Locomotion
- Improvement in Eating
- Improvement in Light Meal Preparation
- Improvement in Laundry
- Improvement in Housekeeping
- Improvement in Shopping
- Improvement in Phone Use
- Improvement in Management of Oral Medications
- Improvement in Dyspnea
- Improvement in Urinary Tract Infection
- Improvement in Urinary Incontinence
- Improvement in Bowel Incontinence
- Improvement in Confusion Frequency
- Stabilization in Grooming
- Stabilization in Bathing
- Stabilization in Transferring
- Stabilization in Light Meal Preparation
- Stabilization in Laundry
- Stabilization in Housekeeping
- Stabilization in Shopping
- Stabilization in Phone Use
- Any Emergent Care
- Discharged to Community
- Acute Care Hospitalization

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