Open AccessOptimizing the InterRAI Assessment Tool in Care Planning Processes for Long-Term Residents: A Scoping Review
Author(s) -
Steve Iduye,
Tracie Risling,
Shelley McKibbon,
Damilola Iduye
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
clinical nursing research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1552-3799
pISSN - 1054-7738
DOI - 10.1177/10547738211020373
Subject(s) - psycinfo , cinahl , medline , minimum data set , health care , long term care , systematic review , nursing , medicine , psychology , psychological intervention , nursing homes , political science , law , economics , economic growth
The aim of this review was to chart and report on existing literature that discusses how the interRAI assessment tool drives care-planning processes for residents in long-term-care settings. This scoping review was informed by the Joanna Briggs Institute guidelines for scoping reviews and the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews guideline. Relevant studies were obtained from databases search of CINAHL (EBSCO), MEDLINE (Ovid), PsycINFO (EBSCO), Academic Search Premier (EBSCO), Embase (Elsevier), ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Database (ProQuest), Sociological Abstracts (ProQuest), and Social Services Abstracts (ProQuest). Of the 17 included studies, five (29.4%) addressed interRAI's minimum dataset component as a clinical data-collection tool; five (29.4%) addressed interRAI's assessment scales and its clinical-assessment protocols as viable health-assessment tools; four (23.5%) considered interRAI's assessment scales in terms of whether this tool is capable of predicting residents' health risks; one (5.9%) addressed the effects of interRAI's care plans on residents' health outcomes; and the remaining two studies (11.8%) used interRAI's quality-indicator function for both the performance of and improvements in the quality of care. The scoping review finds that there is no substantial evidence that supports the implementation of interRAI care plans for consistent health outcomes.