Joint Commission Guide for Data Entry of Chart-Abstracted Measures for Assisted Living Community (ALC)
Applicable calendar years:
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This section of the manual provides several tools to assist assisted living organizations and their vendors in understanding the order in which the aggregate data elements are entered into the Direct Data Submission Platform (DDSP).
{latex}\(\left[{\bf X} + {\rm a} \ \geq\ \underline {\hat a} \sum_i^N \lim_{x \rightarrow k} \delta C\right]\){latex}
Tool #1
Applicable to the following measures: ALC-01, ALC-02, ALC-03, ALC-04
These measures are rate-based proportion measures that are not stratified.
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Applicable to the following measures: ALC-05
ALC-05 is a rate-based proportion measures that is stratified.
ALC-05 requires entry of separate data for ALC-05a and ALC-05b.
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