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| Validity and responsiveness of the Minimum Data Set | | Author(s) | Mark Snowden, Wayne McCormick, Joan Russo |
| Journal title | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol 47, no 8, August 1999 |
| Pages | pp 1000-1004 |
| Keywords | Health [elderly] ; Cognitive processes ; Dementia ; Patients [nursing homes] ; Evaluation ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The Minimum Data Set (MDS) is a national, standardised, comprehensive assessment instrument for nursing homes in the United States. This study examined the criterion validity and responsiveness to change over time of the MDS. The findings demonstrated that the cognitive performance scale, self performance of activities of daily living (ADLs), and behaviour domains of the MDS had reasonable criterion validity when compared with research instruments, and suggest that it is of adequate validity for research purposes in these areas. The MDS was less able to capture dementia-related changes in ADLs in this population of patients with dementia even though the same nursing staff completing the MDS often supplied the information for completing the research scales. As a result, the MDS may be limited as an outcome assessment instrument. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-991210003 A |
| Classmark | CC: DA: EA: LHB:LF 4C: 3J: 7T |
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