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The Numeric Rating Scale (NRS-11) is an 11-point scale for patient self-reporting of pain. It is based solely on the ability to perform activities of daily living (ADLs) and can be used for adults and children 10 years old or older.
Patients in hospice have primarily been elderly; according to the 2006 Handbook of Social Work in Health and Aging, more than 80% of hospice patients in the United States are over 65. [44] But hospice care is available to all age groups, including those under 21. Not all hospices are able to serve every population.
A medical calculator is a type of medical computer software, whose purpose is to allow easy calculation of various scores and indices, presenting the user with a friendly interface that hides the complexity of the formulas.
The information presented in this map reflects the results of hospice inspections provided by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the hospice industry’s federal regulator, in response to a public records request. The time period covers Jan. 2, 2004, to Oct. 16, 2014.
The average U.S. hospice has not undergone a full certification inspection in more than 3.5 years, a HuffPost analysis of Medicare data found. HuffPost found 759 hospices that haven’t been inspected in more than 6 years. Nursing home inspections, by contrast, are required by federal law at least every 15 months.
The FLACC scale or Face, Legs, Activity, Cry, Consolability scale is a measurement used to assess pain for children between the ages of 2 months and 7 years or individuals that are unable to communicate their pain. The scale is scored in a range of 0–10 with 0 representing no pain.
“That is the whole point of hospice – to give patients the most dignity possible.” At Accent Hospice Care in 2013, a small for-profit in Meridian, Idaho, inspectors found that medical staff failed to intervene to protect a 78-year-old patient who said her husband was trying to kill her.
A Likert scale (/ ˈ l ɪ k ər t / LIK-ərt, [1] [note 1]) is a psychometric scale named after its inventor, American social psychologist Rensis Likert, [2] which is commonly used in research questionnaires.