Measuring Disability in Medicare Home Care Patients

Autor: Fortinsky, Richard H., Garcia, Ramon I., Joseph Sheehan, T., Madigan, Elizabeth A., Tullai-McGuinness, Susan
Zdroj: Medical Care; May 2003, Vol. 41 Issue: 5 p601-615, 15p
Abstrakt: The Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) is the universal clinical assessment tool for adult nonmaternity patients receiving skilled care at home from Medicare-certified home health agencies in the United States. Anticipating increased use of OASIS data for research purposes, this article explored the usefulness of Rasch modeling to address disability measurement challenges presented by the unique response category structure of the seven activities of daily living (ADL) and eight instrumental ADL (IADL) items in the OASIS.
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