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Just a heads up - there is no risk adjustment for the dehydration QI. The
items that will cause it to trigger are J1c or 276.5 coded in I3.
Jeanne
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 -----
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
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