Family Satisfaction With Nursing Home Care

Family satisfaction with nursing facility care.

BACKGROUND We present the psychometric properties of our nursing facility family satisfaction questionnaire (NF-FSQ), and the steps used to develop this instrument. METHODS Family members from 14 nursing facilities in Pennsylvania were mailed the NF-FSQ. Factor analyses were used to test the extent to which the items in each domain represented the same underlying construct. To further report ...

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Satisfaction with hospital at home care.

OBJECTIVES To examine differences in satisfaction with acute care between patients who received treatment in a physician-led substitutive Hospital at Home program and those who received usual acute hospital care. DESIGN Survey questionnaire of participants in prospective, nonrandomized clinical trial. SETTING Three Medicare-managed care health systems and a Department of Veterans Affairs Me...

Selecting nursing home residents for satisfaction surveys.

Many cognitively impaired nursing home (NH) residents are excluded from interviews measuring quality of life or care based on the belief that these residents cannot accurately answer questions. These exclusions are based on subjective criteria and ignore individual differences among cognitively impaired NH residents. This study describes a screening rule based on four minimum data set (MDS) ind...

Nursing home administrators' level of job satisfaction.

Job satisfaction has been shown to have a direct relationship to the quality of work. Are nursing home administrators satisfied with their work? How do they compare with their counterparts in other industries? The results of this survey, using the Job Description Index (JDI) and the Job in General (JIG) scale as published by Bowling Green State University, indicate that nursing home administrat...