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Correlates of care quality in long-term care facilities
— a multilevel analysis | | Author(s) | Gina Bravo, Philippe De Wals, Marie-France Dubois |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 54B, no 3, May 1999 |
| Pages | pp P180-188 |
| Keywords | Care homes ; Nursing homes ; Long term ; Management [care] ; Quality ; Variance analysis ; Canada. |
| Annotation | Hierarchical modelling was used to explore correlates of the quality of care provided in long-term care facilities. For this purpose, a multilevel analysis offers two advantages over traditional analytical approaches. First, it accounts for the correlated nature of the data recorded on multiple residents from the same facility. Second, it enables the investigators to study the influence of both resident and facility characteristics on care quality. The analysis was performed on data from 301 randomly sampled residents in 88 residential or nursing homes in the Province of Quebec, Canada. Results revealed that presence of cognitive deficits was the strongest correlate of the quality of care provided to a resident. However, this relationship was found to vary significantly across facilities. Four variables were found to influence the relationship between cognitive functioning and care quality: the number of external collaborators; the type of training received by the manager; the size of home; and the age distribution of its clientele. From these results, the authors suggest how quality of care might be improved. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990826226 A |
| Classmark | KW: LHB: 4Q: QA: 59: 3YA: 7S |
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