ADL Score

Indicator of help needed with Activities of Daily Living (ADLs)

Indicators
Indicator:	ADL Score
Created/Raw:	not stated
Program:	Medicine
Start Date:	2003-10-01
End Date:
Reports:	ALERT Scale, Directors Quarterly and Annual Report (Medicine)
Data Dependencies(Reports/Indicators/Data Elements):	ADL Bathing • ADL Dressing • ADL Toiletting • ADL Transfering • ADL Continence • ADL Feeding

• Cargo

• Helper template:

• Cargo

• Categories

none

• Default form: none, this is populated by Template:Report and Template:Reporting Indicators and their respective forms.

• SMW:

• Categories

• Default form:

This score is derived from the individual #ADL Components collected following general collection instructions in ADL General Collection Information and component-specific criteria defined on the individual component pages listed below.

How is this derived

What we collect

ADL components

We collect the following components:

• ADL Bathing
• ADL Dressing
• ADL Toiletting
• ADL Transfering
• ADL Continence
• ADL Feeding

ADL component scores

For each of the #ADL Components the individual component fields are stored as their full words rather than scores. s_ADLOptions table stores the corresponding scores used in the ADL score or the ALERT Scale as follows:

For criteria see the pages of the individual elements linked above

Option	ADL_Score	ALERT_Score	Explanation
Major	6	6	major assistance
Minor	3	3	minor assistance
Unassisted	1	0	unassisted / independent

Deviation from Katz's definition

This deviates from the original scoring in Katz' paper:

• they only used 2 options
• they assigned the higher score to the unassisted

Combined ADL Score

The ADL Score is the sum of points of all the six activities.

Data Use

• ALERT Scale Calculation/ALERT Scale
• Directors Quarterly and Annual Report (Medicine)
  • Get the sum of the 6 ADLs and assign frequencies by categories (e.g. 1-6, 7-12, 13-18, 19-24, 25-30, 31-36)
• Overstay Predictor Project
• Project Overstay2