Setting standards in residential aged care: identifying achievable benchmarks of care for long-term aged care services.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Benchmark is an important aspect of quality measurement and evaluation of long-term care services (LTCS) performance. In this study, we aimed to estimate achievable benchmarks of care (ABC©) for 12 quality indicators used to monitor the quality of care in Australian LTCS and to identify LTCS characteristics associated with attaining the estimated ABC.

Methods

A cross-sectional study was conducted using integrated population-based datasets from long-term care, health care, and social welfare sectors within the Registry of Senior Australians (ROSA) National Historical Cohort. All LTCS residents in 2019 were included. Twelve risk-adjusted quality indicators were examined. ABC were defined as the performance level of top-ranked LTCS, including those sequentially from

SUBMITTER: Schwabe J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11633664 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature