Minimum Data Set Changes in Health, End-Stage Disease and Symptoms and Signs Scale: A Revised Measure to Predict Mortality in Nursing Home Residents.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To revise the Minimum Data Set (MDS) Changes in Health, End-stage disease and Symptoms and Signs (CHESS) scale, an MDS 2.0-based measure widely used to predict mortality in institutional settings, in response to the release of MDS 3.0.

Design

Development of a predictive scale using observational data from the MDS and Medicare Master Beneficiary Summary File.

Setting

All Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)-certified nursing homes in the United States.

Participants

Development cohort of 1.3 million Medicare beneficiaries newly admitted to a CMS-certified nursing home during 2012. Primary validation cohort of 1.2 million Medicare recipients who were newly admitted to a CMS-certified nursing home during 2013.

Measurements

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SUBMITTER: Ogarek JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5992077 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature