Association of Staffing Instability With Quality of Nursing Home Care.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Recent work suggests that instability in nursing home staffing levels may be an important marker of nursing home quality. Whether that association holds when controlling for average staffing levels is unknown.

Objective

To examine whether staffing instability, defined as the percentage of days below average staffing levels, is associated with nursing home quality when controlling for average staffing levels.

Design, setting, and participants

This quality improvement study of 14 717 nursing homes used the merged Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Payroll Based Journal, Minimum Data Set, Nursing Home Care Compare, and Long-Term-Care Focus data for fiscal years 2017 to 2019. Statistical analysis was performed from February 8 to November 14, 2022.

Main

SUBMITTER: Mukamel DB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9856742 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature