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The Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI)
— promise and pitfall | | Author(s) | Joseph G Ouslander |
| Journal title | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol 45, no 8, August 1997 |
| Pages | pp 975-976 |
| Keywords | Residents [care homes] ; Nursing homes ; Evaluation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This article introduces a set of six articles and two editorials on the Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI), which is the main standard in the US for nursing home assessment and identification of nursing home care quality. The articles suggest that RAI has been associated with improvements in selected care process indicators, functional status measures, health conditions, and reductions in hospitalisation rates. The main pitfalls are RAI's measurement properties, which may be compounded by difficulties in defining good outcomes for nursing home residents, and in developing quality indicators. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-981026004 A |
| Classmark | KX: LHB: 4C: 7T |
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