How to ask: Surveying nursing directors of nursing homes.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

Nursing home research may involve eliciting information from managers, yet response rates for Directors of Nursing have not been recently studied. As a part of a more extensive study, we surveyed all nursing homes in three states in 2018 and 2019, updating how to survey these leaders effectively. We focus on response rates as a measure of non-response error and comparison of nursing home's characteristics to their population values as a measure of representation error.

Methods

We surveyed Directors of Nursing or their designees in nursing homes serving adult residents with at least 30 beds in California, Massachusetts, and Ohio (N = 2389). We collected contact information for respondents and then emailed survey invitations and links, followed by three ema

SUBMITTER: Williams JAR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8177897 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature