The quality of care delivered to residents in long-term care in Australia: an indicator-based review of resident records (CareTrack Aged study)

Table 5 Information about indicator questions, by condition/process of care

Condition/process of care	N indicator questions with one or more assessed responses	Median number of responses to each question (IQR)	N indicator questions with adherence reported^a	Median reported value for indicator questions with adherence reported^b (IQR))
Admission	30	62 (62, 63)	28	55.0 (25.2, 77.9)
Bladder and bowel	20	6 (2, 183)	8	92.4 (49.4, 97.1)
Cognitive impairment	32	78 (24, 146)	24	77.4 (26.1, 94.0)
Depression	11	5 (4, 56)	3	10.6 (0.6, 17.2)
Dysphagia	9	12 (7, 29)	4	61.0 (28.5, 86.1)
End-of-life care	32	55 (53, 57)	29	66.3 (43.0, 84.7)
Infection	32	61 (11, 119)	18	24.3 (4.6, 55.4)
Medication	10	99 (79, 150)	10	24.2 (17.7, 58.9)
Mobility and falls	20	202 (190, 217)	20	42.4 (21.0, 82.8)
Nutrition and hydration	23	76 (16, 112)	17	28.5 (12.0, 62.6)
Oral health	9	21 (12, 22)	2	55.2 (12.4, 98.1)
Pain	40	131 (72, 156)	38	57.6 (23.0, 76.9)
Skin integrity	22	64 (41, 218)	18	48.8 (18.5, 74.8)
Sleep	6	20 (3, 23)	1	18.3 (18.3, 18.3)

^aWhere n ≥ 25 responses assessed. Adherence was not reported separately for indicator questions with fewer than this number of assessed responses, due to wide confidence intervals
^bFor some questions such as sleep, the median reported differs from the overall weighted average (see Table 4) because a large proportion of assessed indicators were for questions with fewer than 25 assessments, and unreported adherence for these questions was different to that of the reported indicator question(s)

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