Residential care and administrative data in British Columbia - Developing methods to identify residents

RESIDENTIAL CARE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DATA IN BC 2 www.chspr.ubc.ca UBC CENTRE FOR HEALTH SERVICES AND POLICY RESEARCH Executive summary The BC Ministry of Health continuing care data is the pick up some people living in Assisted Living or in most relevant source of data for identifying people residential care for only respite or a short-term stay. [...] data source(s) to use depend on the years of data of study and the health authorities (HA) and/or The key table for identifying residential care residents health service delivery areas (HSDA) of interest (see in the CCD data is the LTC Service Plan table (also Figure 1). [...] Researchers may want to identify residents of long term care homes (nursing homes) in particular— • Care must be used in combining data from thus the best of the algorithms will be subset to people different data sources / over time (especially aged 65 and older only and compared to the LTC with the transition from the old system to the data in particular from the continuing care databases. [...] The number of people in residential care in BC of AL clients picked up increased to almost 400 for The number of people meeting the recommended the LTC fee item/Plan B/ServLoc C algorithm, and algorithms criteria were found by year, and in Table almost 650 when the DAD information was also 7 are compared to the number of people in residen- included (13%/21% of AL clients in that year; without tial. [...] The each of the key variables from the commonly focus of this analysis was to identify such variables requested databases in the algorithms to identify in commonly requested and available databases, residents of residential care are summarized in which at this point in time often does not include the Table 8.