Quality Innovation Networks Share Varied Resources for Nursing Homes on Mostly User-Friendly Websites.

ABSTRACT:

Background/objective

Quality innovation networks' (QINs') support of nursing homes (NHs) is a national strategy to systematically improve the quality of care experienced by residents. QINs have been tasked with providing NHs with information, resources, tools, and training to assist in developing best practices and to support quality improvement efforts in infection prevention (including joining the National Healthcare Safety Network [NHSN]), avoid unnecessary hospitalizations, and increase use of hospice and palliative care. Our objective was to examine QIN online resources provided to NHs to support best practices and improvement efforts.

Design

An environmental scan was conducted.

Setting/measurement

Each QIN website was evaluated on (1) usability, (2) accessibilit

SUBMITTER: Quigley DD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8173537 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature