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| Facility level outcome performance measures for nursing homes | | Author(s) | Frank Porell, Francis G Caro |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 38, no 6, December 1998 |
| Pages | pp 665-684 |
| Keywords | Nursing homes ; Performance ; Evaluation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Data concerning Medicaid residents of more than 500 nursing homes in Massachusetts was used to compile risk-adjusted performance scores based on four health outcomes and five quality indicators. Health outcome measures were: survival rate; activities of daily living (ADL) functional status; behavioural or cognitive status; and incontinence. Quality indicators were: decubitis ulcers; restraint use; contractures; accidents; and weight change. Over a 3-year period, intercorrelations between the nine measures were relatively low and not uniformly positive. For most outcomes, longitudinal analyses revealed only modest correlations between a nursing home's performance score from one time period to the next. Relatively few homes exhibited consistently superior or inferior performance over time. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010116202 A |
| Classmark | LHB: 5H: 4C: 7T |
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