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Record W4415507355 · doi:10.1016/j.ijnsa.2025.100424

Examining the ability of the interRAI communication collaborative action plan to identify individuals with sensory challenges: A retrospective cohort study

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Nicole Williams, Walter Wittich, M. Kathleen Pichora‐Fuller, J. B. Orange, Dawn M. Guthrie

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal of Nursing Studies Advances · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicGeriatric Care and Nursing Homes
Canadian institutionsWestern UniversityUniversity of TorontoSanté MontérégieUniversité de MontréalCentre de réadaptation Lethbridge-Layton-MackayWilfrid Laurier University
FundersCanadian Institutes of Health ResearchConsortium canadien en neurodégénérescence associée au vieillissement
KeywordsFlaggingSensory systemAction (physics)Plan (archaeology)Retrospective cohort studyEmpirical researchCohort study

Abstract

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Background: The current study evaluated the performance of the interRAI communication collaborative action plan (CAP) to flag individuals with sensory impairments who could benefit from intervention. Investigators also examined how the CAP can help facilitate client-centered care planning and service delivery by exploring three unique case studies. Method: This retrospective cohort study utilized secondary data collected using the Resident Assessment Instrument for Home Care (RAI-HC) across Canada. The sample included individuals aged 65 years or older who had two RAI-HC assessments completed between 2008 and 2020 (n=508,856). At time 1, individuals were categorized into three mutually exclusive groups based on their CAP triggering level: not triggered, triggered to facilitate improvement, or triggered to prevent decline. The three groups were compared across demographic characteristics, sensory impairments, cognitive challenges, and disease diagnoses. Transitions between triggering levels from time 1 and time 2 were analyzed using Sankey diagrams. Three case studies were examined to identify the reasons why someone may no longer trigger on the CAP at time 2. Results: The median time between an individual's intake and most recent assessment was 21 months (standard deviation=24.7 months). The majority of individuals did not trigger on the CAP at time 1 (77.7 %; n=395,309), while 9.5 % (n=48,263) triggered to facilitate improvement and 12.5 % (n=65,284) triggered to prevent decline. For each of the sensory impairments, the majority of individuals were more likely to fall into the triggered to facilitate improvement group. Conclusions: The communication CAP was robust in flagging individuals with sensory impairments as these individuals are more likely to fall into the triggered to facilitate improvement group. The three case studies highlight the importance of assessing all aspects of communication (e.g., cognitive, and sensory challenges, receptive and expressive communication), as they are all necessary components when considering decision-support tools and next steps.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.007
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.016
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.031
Threshold uncertainty score0.062

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0070.016
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.144
GPT teacher head0.516
Teacher spread0.371 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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