Re: QI - Dehydration

[Holly Sox, RN, RAC-C]

Hi, Try to think of it just the opposite from the old standardized tests in school.   Then, you wanted your percentile score to be high.   The percentile score gives the percentage of people  (or facilities) that scored lower than you.  So, for dehydration, if your percentile score is 86, and your numerator is 2, then 86% of the facilities in your comparison group had one or none with dehydration in that time frame.  I am fairly certain that end stage disease removes the person from both the numerator and the denominator.   Holly Sox ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 5:15 PM Subject: QI - Dehydration Just looking at our QI's, & I'm trying to understand why the dehydration percentile rank was so high (86), when the # in the numerator was only 2.  Any help I could get to understand this would be greatly appreciated.  Also, if "end stage disease, 6 or fewer months to live" is checked, are these residents excluded from the numerator?  Thank-You!                                               Other info:                                       # in denom - 205                                         facility percent - 1.0                                         comparison group percent - 0.3