Quality of care in European home care programs using the second generation interRAI Home Care Quality Indicators (HCQIs)
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Quality of care in European home care programs using the second generation interRAI Home Care Quality Indicators (HCQIs)
BACKGROUND Evaluating the quality of care provided to older individuals is a key step to ensure that needs are being met and to target interventions to improve care. To this aim, interRAI's second-generation home care quality indicators (HCQIs) were developed in 2013. This study assesses the quality of home care services in six European countries using these HCQIs as well as the two derived sum...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Geriatrics
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1471-2318
DOI: 10.1186/s12877-015-0146-5