Underreporting of Quality Measures and Associated Facility Characteristics and Racial Disparities in US Nursing Home Ratings.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The US government rates nursing homes and reports the underlying quality measures on the Nursing Home Care Compare (NHCC) website. These measures are derived from facility-reported data, which research indicates to be substantially underreported.

Objective

To assess the association between nursing home characteristics and reporting of major injury falls and pressure ulcers, which are 2 of 3 specific clinical outcomes reported by the NHCC website.

Design, setting, and participants

This quality improvement study used hospitalization data for all Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries between January 1, 2011, and December 31, 2017. Hospital admission claims for major injury falls and pressure ulcers were linked with facility-reported Minimum Data Set (MDS) ass

SUBMITTER: Sanghavi P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10208148 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature