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| Future development of nursing home quality indicators | | Author(s) | Greg Arling, Robert L Kane, Teresa Lewis |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 45, no 2, April 2005 |
| Pages | pp 147-156 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Nursing homes ; Management [care] ; Quality ; Indicators ; Measurement ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Nursing home quality indicators have been developed over the past 10 years to quantify nursing home quality and to draw systematic comparisons between facilities. Although these indicators have been applied widely for nursing home regulation, quality improvement and public reporting, researchers and stakeholders have raised concerns about their economy and usefulness. The authors critically evaluate nursing home quality indicators from the standpoint of theory, measurement and application. They recommend strategies to make the indicators more valuable as quality assessment tools, for example, that more comprehensive quality indicators should be developed in conjunction with the new Minimum Data Set 3.0 (MDS). Other recommendations relate to thorough evaluation of validity and reliability; explicit incorporation of statistical criteria into quality indicator scoring; and strengthening of reporting systems, tailoring them to stakeholders' needs. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-051117203 A |
| Classmark | LHB: QA: 59: 3RI: 3R: 7T |
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