Patient outcome as a measure of quality of nursing home care.

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

Care-as-service, care-as-relating, care-as-comfort: understanding nursing home residents' definitions of quality.

PURPOSE This study explored how nursing home residents define quality of care. DESIGN AND METHODS Data were collected through in-depth interviews and were analyzed using grounded dimensional analysis. RESULTS Residents defined quality in three ways: (a) Care-as-service residents focused on instrumental aspects of care. They assessed quality using the parameters of efficiency, competence, an...

Care of the nursing home patient.

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Field testing, refinement, and psychometric evaluation of a new measure of nursing home care quality.

The primary aim of this NINR-NIH-funded field test in 407 nursing homes in 3 states was to complete the development of and conduct psychometric testing for the Observable Indicators of Nursing Home Care Quality Instrument (Observable Indicators, OIQ). The development of the OIQ was based on extensive qualitative and iterative quantitative work that described nursing home care quality and did in...

Nursing effort and quality of care for nursing home residents.

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between nursing home staffing level, care received by individual residents, and resident quality-related care processes and functional outcomes. DESIGN AND METHODS Nurses recorded resident care time for 5,314 residents on 156 units in 105 facilities in four states (Colorado, Indiana, Minnesota, and Mississippi). We linked res...