Nursing home quality indicators have been developed over the past 10 years to quantify
nursing home quality and to draw systematic comparisons between facilities. Although these …

Background Leadership and staffing are recognised as important factors for quality of care.
This study examines the effects of ward leaders' task-and relationship-oriented leadership …

Aims and objectives To examine and map research on minimum data sets linked to nursing
practice and the fundamentals of care. Another aim was to identify gaps in the evidence to …

Over the past two decades, nursing homes and home health care agencies have been
influenced by several Medicare and Medicaid policy changes including the adoption of …

Background: With an anticipated increased use of nursing homes to serve an aging
population in the United States, questions regarding the quality and cost of nursing home …

Objective. To examine the efficiency of the care planning process in nursing homes.
Methods: We collected detailed primary data about the care planning process for a stratified …

Nursing home quality measures impact policy decisions such as reimbursement or
consumer choice. Quality indicators in the United States are collected through the federally …

Using a modified hybrid short-term operating cost function and a national sample of nursing
homes in 1994, the authors examined the scale economies of nursing home care. The …

Pressure on health care systems due to the increasing expenditures of the elderly
population is pushing policy makers to adopt new regulation and payment schemes for …

Nursing home quality indicators have been developed over the past 10 years to quantify
nursing home quality and to draw systematic comparisons between facilities. Although these …