Table 3.
Cross-Sectional Correlation between Nursing Home Quality Measure (QM) of Incontinence and Case Mix: First Quarter of 2005
| CMS QM |
Risk-Adjusted QM |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Nursing Homes (n=10,437) | Top 25% and Bottom 25% Nursing Homes (n=5,220) | Top 10% and Bottom 10% Nursing Homes (n=2,088) | All Nursing Homes (n=10,437) | Top 25% and Bottom 25% Nursing Homes (n=5,220) | Top 10% and Bottom 10% Nursing Homes (n=2,088) | |
| % of residents with age ≥85 | r=0.34 | r=0.43 | r=0.55 | r=0.04 | r=0.07 | r=0.13 |
| % of female residents | r=0.32 | r=0.41 | r=0.53 | r=0.02 | r=0.05 | r=0.11 |
| % of residents with cognitive skill impairment | r=0.15 | r=0.18 | r=0.17 | r=−0.08 | r=−0.10 | r=−0.14 |
| % of residents only able to make self understood sometimes | r=0.29 | r=0.37 | r=0.47 | r=0.02 | r=0.03 | r=0.07 |
| % of residents rarely able to make self understood | r=0.18 | r=0.22 | r=0.25 | r=0.04 | r=0.06 | r=0.08 |
| Average number of ADLs | r=0.69 | r=0.77 | r=0.84 | r=−0.08 | r=−0.09 | r=−0.06 |
| Adjusted R2* | 0.50 | 0.62 | 0.71 | 0.02 | 0.04 | 0.07 |
Note. Top and bottom nursing homes are defined based on rankings of the CMS or risk-adjusted QM rate, respectively.
*
Derived from the multivariate ordinary least-squares model of the QM as a function of all case-mix variables.
ADL, activities of daily living; CMS, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; QM, quality measure.