Information System Pilot for Home Care in Winnipeg – 
Screening Assessment and Care Planning Automated Tool (SACPAT) and InterRAI Minimum Data Set (MDS-HC)

The objectives of the Information System Pilot for Home Care in Winnipeg – Screening Assessment and Care Planning Automated Tool (SACPAT) and InterRAI Minimum Data Set (MDS-HC) project were to:

1. test SACPAT for reliability and validity using data from the two existing sites;
2. leave SACPAT in one existing site and roll-out MDS-HC, a tool with demonstrated reliability and validity, to the remaining 15 Winnipeg sites;
3. perform a comparative assessment of the two tools in order to identify a solution that best meets the needs of the Manitoba Home Care Program.

The Manitoba Centre for Health Policy and Evaluation (MCHPE), as part of an allied Health Transition Fund project, Enhancing Capacity to Study and Evaluate Home Care (MB 122), evaluated SACPAT and MDS-HC for validity and reliability and recommended MDS-HC as the best tool for Home Care in Manitoba.

View the report

The following documents are in Portable Document Format (PDF) and must be viewed using the Adobe Acrobat Reader.
If you do not have it installed on your computer, please click here.

• Executive Summary:
  Information System Pilot for Home Care in Winnipeg – Screening Assessment and Care Planning Automated Tool (SACPAT) and InterRAI Minimum Data Set (MDS-HC)  / Système d’information pilote pour les soins à domicile à Winnipeg : Outil informatisé de présélection, d’évaluation et de planification des soins (SACPAT) et InterRAI ensemble de données minimales (MDS-HC)
  
  
• Appendix 1:
  Enhancing Capacity to Study and Evaluate Home Care:  An Evaluation of the Potential to Use Routinely Collected Data in Manitoba