Association between traditional nursing home quality measures and two sources of nursing home complaints.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To test for an association between traditional nursing home quality measures and two sources of resident- and caregiver-derived nursing home complaints.

Data sources

Nursing home complaints to the North Carolina Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program and state certification agency from October 2002 through September 2006 were matched with Online Survey Certification and Reporting data and Minimum Data Set Quality Indicators (MDS-QIs).

Study design

We examine the association between the number of complaints filed against a facility and measures of inspection violations, staffing levels, and MDS-QIs.

Data extraction

One observation per facility per quarter is constructed by matching quarterly data on complaints to OSCAR data from the same or most recent prior

SUBMITTER: Troyer JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3725524 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature