Have Nursing Home Compare quality measure scores changed over time in response to competition?

A quantitative measure to compare the disciplinary profiles of research systems and their evolution over time

We model Science and Technology (S&T) systems as complex systems and propose to use the mathematical tools developed within the spin-glasses literature to evaluate similarity within systems and between systems in a unified manner. Our measure is based on the ‘overlap’ of disciplinary profiles of a set of S&T systems. The investigation of the distribution of the overlaps provides useful insights...

Types of Care When a Nursing Home Is Home : How Do Canadian Nursing Homes Measure Up on Quality ?

An instrument to measure job satisfaction of nursing home administrators

BACKGROUND The psychometric properties of the nursing home administrator job satisfaction questionnaire (NHA-JSQ) are presented, and the steps used to develop this instrument. METHODS The NHA-JSQ subscales were developed from pilot survey activities with 93 administrators, content analysis, and a research panel. The resulting survey was sent to 1,000 nursing home administrators. Factor analys...

Nursing Magnet Hospitals Have Better CMS Hospital Compare Ratings Richard

Background: There has been conflicting data on whether Nursing Magnet Hospitals (NMH) provide better care. Methods: NMH in the Southwest USA (Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, and New Mexico) were compared to hospitals not designated as NMH using the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) hospital compare star designation. Results: NMH had higher star ratings than non-NMH hospital...

A systematic review describing incidence rate and prevalence of dysvascular partial foot amputation; how both have changed over time and compare to transtibial amputation

BACKGROUND Partial foot amputation (PFA) is a common consequence of advanced peripheral vascular disease. Given the different ways incidence rate and prevalence data have been measured and reported, it is difficult to synthesize data and reconcile variation between studies. As such, there is uncertainty in whether the incidence rates and prevalence of PFA have increased over time compared to th...