Association of race and sites of care with pressure ulcers in high-risk nursing home residents.

ABSTRACT:

Context

A variety of nursing home quality improvement programs have been implemented during the last decade but their implications for racial disparities on quality are unknown.

Objectives

To determine the longitudinal trend of racial disparities in pressure ulcer prevalence among high-risk, long-term nursing home residents and to assess whether persistent disparities are related to where residents received care.

Design, setting, and participants

Observational cohort study of pressure ulcer rates in 2.1 million white and 346,808 black residents of 12,473 certified nursing homes in the United States that used the nursing home resident assessment; Online Survey, Certification, and Reporting files; and Area Resource Files for 2003 through 2008. Nursing homes were categor

SUBMITTER: Li Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4108174 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature