Outcome monitoring data released
The latest quality and safety monitoring and benchmarking reports from ROSA are available for home aged care providers.
The Registry of Senior Australians has released its public and provider reports on outcome monitoring for aged care, with wait-time for home care packages topping the prevalence lists for home care providers in South Australia.
The home care report examines the quality and safety of care against 15 indicators for home care package services across the state. The public report can be used by providers to benchmark against, and is available to home care package providers in SA.
It is the second release of the report ROSA – which is based at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute – has produced on its Outcome Monitoring System following the inaugural release in 2022.
The pragmatic and low-burden quality and safety monitoring and benchmarking system delivers information to aged care providers to support evidence-based quality improvement activities.
“These reports offer valuable benchmarking opportunities and aim to stimulate conversations on best practices within and between providers, thereby enhancing the care of older Australians,” ROSA director Professor Maria Inacio told Community Care Review.
The public-facing ROSA OMS Home Care Brief Report for SA 2024 report describes the variation in quality and safety of care experienced by 16,843 home care package recipients in South Australia enrolled in ROSA in July 1 2021-June 30 2022.
It found more than three-quarters of those recipients waited more than six months for home care services (78 per cent). The next most prevalent indicators include antibiotic use (48 per cent), chronic disease management plan (43.7 per cent) and emergency department presentations (40.9 per cent).
On the the prevalence or incidence of the other 14 indicators experienced by home care recipients, the report found:
- exposure to a high sedative load: 26.2 per cent
- chronic opioid use: 13.2 per cent
- antipsychotic use: 5.6 per cent
- falls-related hospitalisation: 11.0 per cent
- delirium or dementia-related hospitalisation: 11.2 per cent
- fractures: 4.5 per cent
- malnutrition or weight loss-related hospitalisation: 3.0 per cent
- medication-related hospitalisation: 2.7 per cent
- home medicines review: 2.6 per cent
- pressure injury-related hospitalisation: 2.3 per cent
- premature mortality: 0.1 per cent.
Individualised reports are also available
For those in South Australia, a personalised report enables home care providers to examine their service cohort characteristics and outcomes across 15 ROSA OMS indicators, with benchmarks for comparison. For the current reporting period, 97 individualised home care service-specific reports for SA home care providers are available for circulation.
The free individual provider reports are available to SA aged care providers with 20 or more care recipients enrolled in ROSA. To request a report, providers should send an email to rosa.oms@sahmri.com with a signed copy of their ROSA OMS Reports Request Form, which you can download here. Providers are able to use their individualised reports for publication, public release and other communications at their discretion.
The ROSA OMS was built from a collaboration between the ROSA team, aged care providers, peak bodies, clinicians, and consumer representatives. Similar reports are also available for residential aged care providers.
“These reports are instrumental in driving quality improvement, transparency and accountability across the aged care sector in South Australia,” said Professor Inacio.
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