TY  - BOOK
AU  - Turcotte,Luke
AU  -  Heckman,George
AU  -  Hébert,Paul
AU  -  Weir,Julie
AU  -  Mulla,Reem
AU  -  Hirdes,John P
TI  - Quality in canadian long-term care homes that serve different resident language groups
PY  - 2022///.
							
N1  - 52
N2  - Objectives: Canada has two official languages (English and French) that vary in usage by province/territory and other smaller geographic units. The objective of this study was to compare the characteristics of persons receiving care in long-term care homes serving different language groups and to examine the extent to which data quality and distributional properties of indicators vary between homes. Methods: We used routinely collected interRAI Minimum Data Set (MDS) 2.0 assessment data from nine Canadian provinces and territories to classify 1,333 long-term care homes into predominately English, French, and mixed language groups. We compared resident characteristics, risk-adjusted quality indicator performance, and assessment data quality by facility language group. Results: In these data, eighteen (1.35%) long-term care homes served predominately French-speaking residents. An additional 274 (20.54%) homes were classified as mixed language homes, where 20% or more residents spoke a language other than English or French. The remaining homes (1,042; 78.11%) were classified as English homes. We did not observe substantial differences between facility language groups in terms of resident characteristics, quality indicator performance, and data quality. Conclusions: Despite linguistic differences, long-term care homes in Canada serving residents that speak predominately French and other languages can be compared directly with homes serving predominantly English-speaking residents. These findings support language-agnostic benchmarking of quality of care among long-term care homes situated across Canada, particularly in officially bilingual provinces
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-sante-publique-2022-3-page-359?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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