Identification and Evaluation of Existing Nursing Homes Quality Indicators.
We summarize work done to identify and evaluate existing quality indicators (QIs) for long-term care (LTC) settings. Indicators operationally defined using routinely collected and computerized patient assessments were identified and then aggregated to characterize the performance of the nursing faci...
| Published in: | Health Care Financing Review Vol. 23; no. 4; pp. 19 - 37 |
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HCFA ORDS Publications
Summer 2002
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