Association between High Proportions of Seriously Mentally Ill Nursing Home Residents and the Quality of Resident Care.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To examine the association between the quality of care delivered to nursing home residents with and without a serious mental illness (SMI) and the proportion of nursing home residents with SMI.

Design

Instrumental variable study. Relative distance to the nearest nursing home with a high proportion of SMI residents was used to account for potential selection of patients between high- and low-SMI facilities. Data were obtained from the 2006-2010 Minimum Data Set assessments linked with Medicare claims and nursing home information from the Online Survey, Certification, and Reporting database.

Setting

Nursing homes with high (defined as at least 10% of a facility's population having an SMI diagnosis) and low proportions of SMI residents.

Participants

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SUBMITTER: McGarry BE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6861617 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature