Relationship Between Nursing Home Compare Improvement in Function Quality Measure and Physical Recovery After Hip Replacement.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine whether patients with a total or partial hip replacement admitted to a skilled nursing facility (SNF) after the improvement in function quality measure was added to Nursing Home Compare in July 2016 have greater physical recovery than patients admitted before July 2016.

Design

Pre (January 1, 2015-June 30, 2016) vs post (July 1, 2016-December 31, 2017) design.

Setting

Skilled nursing facilities (n=12,829).

Participants

Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries (N=106,832) discharged from acute hospitals to SNF after hip replacement between January 1, 2015 and December 31, 2017.

Interventions

Not applicable.

Main outcome measures

The 5- and 14-day minimum data set assessments were used to calculate total scores for the quality m

SUBMITTER: Downer B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8429053 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature