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'Single' assessment for older people
— comparison of the MDS-HC with current auditable methods in the home care setting | | Author(s) | G Iain Carpenter, David J Challis, Cameron Swift |
| Journal title | Journal of Integrated Care, vol 13, issue 5, October 2005 |
| Pages | pp 35-41 |
| Source | http://www.pavpub.com |
| Keywords | Community care ; Needs [elderly] ; Evaluation ; Social Services Departments ; Methodology ; Comparison. |
| Annotation | A randomised controlled trial compared the the extent to which the the Minimum Data Set - Home Care (MDS-HC) and current community care assessments (CCAs) used in assessing older people met the following criteria: usable by a range of professionals including social workers; a tool which exhibits reliability; a practical tool for workers in the field; sensitivity to change; auditable in terms of both the process and the product of the assessment; sufficiently comprehensive to cover the key domains relevant for care of older people; and improve need identification. The study was conducted in two social service departments (SSDs) with 384 subjects aged 65+ meeting these criteria. The authors outline methods used and discuss the results. They find that use of a well-developed standardised assessment (the MDS-HC) was associated with much better coverage of key domains than that of existing assessment instruments: it is likely that the instrument's characteristics were the key to better auditable results. They note that MDS-HC took no longer to use than existing assessments, and conclude that assessment methods of unproven reliability and validity may jeopardise the interests of older people and the need to raise assessment standards. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-051019004 A |
| Classmark | PA: IK: 4C: PF: 3D: 48 |
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