Malpractice litigation and nursing home quality of care.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the potential deterrent effect of nursing home litigation threat on nursing home quality.

Data sources/study setting

We use a panel dataset of litigation claims and Nursing Home Online Survey Certification and Reporting (OSCAR) data from 1995 to 2005 in six states: Florida, Illinois, Wisconsin, New Jersey, Missouri, and Delaware, for a total of 2,245 facilities. Claims data are from Westlaw's Adverse Filings database, a proprietary legal database, on all malpractice, negligence, and personal injury/wrongful death claims filed against nursing facilities.

Study design

A lagged 2-year moving average of the county-level number of malpractice claims is used to represent the threat of litigation. We use facility fixed-effects models to examine the relati

SUBMITTER: Konetzka RT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3876392 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature