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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Apr 18.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2010 Nov 10;12(2):91–98. doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2010.07.016

Table 1.

National Nursing Home Quality Measures

Chronic Care Quality Measures:
Percentage of residents with

  1. Increased Activities of Daily Living (ADL) dependency

  2. Moderate-severe pain

  3. Pressure sores

  4. Physical restraints

  5. Bowel-bladder incontinence and use of indwelling catheters

  6. Most of time in bed or chair

  7. Decreased ability to move

  8. Urinary tract infection

  9. Increased depression-anxiety

  10. Weight loss

Postacute Care Quality Measures:
Percentage of short stay residents with

  1. Delirium

  2. Moderate-severe pain

  3. Pressure sores

Source: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, National Nursing Home Quality Measures: User’s Manual, November 2004 (vo1. 2).