RAI benchmarking reports
THL's RAI benchmarking reports are available to healthcare and social welfare organization that use RAI instruments.
To use them, you need a login ID, which you can request from your welfare region or organization's RAI contact person. THL will send a new login ID to RAI contact persons when the comparison data is updated.
More information and links to the RAI benchmarking reports
RAI benchmarking databases in jointly funded RAI benchmarking
EasyRAIder databases, RAI database for service organiser and RAI database for servise purchaser are available to the partner organizations in jointly funded RAI benchmarking.
To use them, you need a login ID, which you can request from your welfare region or organization's RAI contact person. THL will send a new login ID to RAI contact persons when the comparison data is updated.
More information and links to the EasyRAIder databases
More information and links to the RAI database for service organiser
More information and links to the RAI database for servise purchaser
Publicly available RAI benchmarking data
RAI Database for Older People’s Client Guidance, RAI Database for Regular Services for Older People, RAI Statistical Report about Functional Ability and Service Needs of Older Service Users and RAI Indicators in Sotkanet are publicly available.
You don't need a login ID to use them.
It is not possible to identify individual clients from the RAI Benchmarking data. Suppression and aggregation rules are applied in the RAI benchmarking databases to ensure data protection.
Suppression
All benchmarking databases suppress any data based on fewer than five assessments.
Aggregation
In addition to suppression, aggregation is applied to results showing 0% and 100% values. These values indicate that the reported phenomenon occurs for all or none of the clients.
For example, if the prevalence of urinary tract infections (UTIs) in a unit is 100%, this would reveal sensitive information about every client in that unit.
The aggregation markings used in the benchmarking data depend on the number of assessed clients. A single case — for example, a UTI occurring in only one client — affects the indicator result differently depending on unit size.
- Example: In a unit with ten clients, reporting nine or ten UTI cases appears in the data as “90–100”.
- Example: In a unit with twenty clients, reporting nineteen or twenty UTI cases appears as “95–100”.
A corresponding aggregation is applied to the reporting of zero and one case. These markings also vary according to the number of assessments.
- Example: If a unit has five clients assessed with RAI, reporting zero or one UTI case is shown as “0–20”.
- Example: If a unit has one hundred RAI‑assessed clients, reporting zero or one UTI case appears as “0–1”.
An indicator value may appear in the RAI Benchmarking data in a format such as 90–100 or 0–10. This means that the value has been aggregated to ensure data protection. You can use aggregated values even though the exact indicator value is not shown.
If an indicator value is aggregated as “90–100”, it can be interpreted as meaning “at least 90 percent.”
If you need to use the value in other systems or tables, you may convert it—depending on the scale and desired interpretation—to either 90 or 100.
Similarly, if an indicator value is aggregated as “0–10”, it can be interpreted as meaning “no more than 10 percent.” You may use either 0 or 10 as appropriate for your use case.
More information on aggregation rules can be found under the question “How is data protection ensured in RAI benchmarking data?” on this tab.
Software vendors transfer their client organisations’ RAI assessment data to THL twice a year.
THL processes the assessment data to generate RAI Benchmarking data and updates the benchmarking databases with new and corrected information either semi‑annually or annually, depending on the database.
The RAI Benchmarking data compiled by THL are based on locked RAI assessments of functional ability and service needs completed for clients.
For example, the number of clients shown in the benchmarking data refers to the number of clients assessed with RAI instruments, which may differ from the total number of clients in a unit or organisation.