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Developing Standardized Assessment Items

Developing Standardized Assessment Items. Barbara Gage, PhD, MPA Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform The Brookings Institution May 6, 2014. Reviewed State LTSS Assessments. Common Focus Areas Functional status (ADL, IADL, mobility) Cognitive status Health status Social supports

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Developing Standardized Assessment Items

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  1. Developing Standardized Assessment Items Barbara Gage, PhD, MPA Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform The Brookings Institution May 6, 2014

  2. Reviewed State LTSS Assessments • Common Focus Areas • Functional status (ADL, IADL, mobility) • Cognitive status • Health status • Social supports • Financial supports • Caregiver needs

  3. Function • Most common domain in determining eligibility for community-based services • Activities of daily living • Bathing • Grooming • Dressing • Toileting • Eating • Mobility • Indoors • Outdoors • Require assistance • Require device

  4. Instrumental Activities of Daily Living Finances/Money Management Medication Management Meal preparation Housekeeping Phone Use – make calls, receive calls Shopping Transportation

  5. Cognitive Skills and Impairments • Orientation • Memory • Judgement/Decision-making • Communication • Expression • Understanding • Hearing • Vision

  6. Behaviorial Symptoms Harmful to self or others Disruptive behaviors Wandering

  7. Health Status • Incontinence • Pressure Ulcers • Medical Conditions • Mental Conditions • Depression • Alzheimers • Mental Ilness

  8. Caregiver Support Needs • For person – • Availability of caregiver • Relationship of caregiver • Frequency of caregiver needs • Types of assistance • For caregiver • Education needs • Other types of assistance

  9. Criteria for Selecting Standardized Items • Valid concepts for applying to a population • Reliable measures of the concept • Consistent use across state programs • Eligilibility determination • Care planning • Outcomes measurement • Consistent use across person-level transitions • Items used to manage health, behavioral, and social support services • Exchangeability of data • Start with those in existing state systems • Standardize those with electronic specification

  10. Long Term Goals • Allow system-agnostic case management? • Track medical, functional, social, behavioral support needs • Track services used • Track types of resources to support services • Identify other resources by electronically matching services and needs • Develop support estimates based on identified needs and available resources • Report to funders on cost-effectiveness of programs in absolute and relative terms (NH v community-based services for people with same function, medical, social support systems)

  11. Next Steps

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