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Nursing home deficiencies in the United States
— a confirmatory factor analysis | | Author(s) | Joseph T Mullan, Charlene Harrington |
| Journal title | Research on Aging, vol 23, no 5, September 2001 |
| Pages | pp 503-531 |
| Keywords | Nursing homes ; Management [care] ; Quality ; Evaluation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This is a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) of deficiencies in nursing homes obtained from the On-line Survey Certification and Reporting system (OSCAR), a national database on nursing home quality maintained by the US Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA). A major goal was to identify a core set of items that would reliably reflect a meaningful set of dimensions of problems in quality of care. Analysis suggests a model of eight underlying factors: quality of care, abuse, assessment, rights, environment, nutrition, pharmacy, and administration. 40 items are robust indicators for these eight dimensions of problems in quality of care. OSCAR data are a potentially valuable source of quality of care information; however, given random and systematic variability, some care in their use is required. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010907201 A |
| Classmark | LHB: QA: 59: 4C: 7T |
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