Nursing home staffing, turnover, and case mix: Commentary

Medical Care Research and Review

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 393-399

  Zinn, Jacqueline S ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; BUDGET; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; INCOME; JOB SATISFACTION; MEDICAID; MEDICAL STAFF; MEDICARE; NOTE; NURSE; NURSING HOME; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0041464448     PISSN: 10775587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077558703254696     Document Type: Note

References (21)

1. American Health Care Association. 1999. Facts and trends 1999, the nursing facility sourcebook. Washington, DC: American Health Care Association.
2. Banaczak-Holl, J., and M. Hines. 1996. Factors associated with nursing home staff turnover. The Gerontologist 36 (4): 512-17.
3. Buerhaus, P. I. 2000. Policy responses to an aging registered nurse workforce. Nursing Economics 18 (6): 226-38.
4. Castle, N. G., and V. Mor. 1998. Physical restraints in nursing homes: A review of the literature since the Nursing Home Reform Act of 1987. Medical Care Research and Review 55 (2): 139-70.
5. Chen, L.-W., and D. G. Shea. 2002. Does prospective payment really contain nursing home costs? Health Services Research 37 (2): 251-71.
6. Donabedian, A. 1966. Evaluating the quality of medical care. Millbank Memorial Fund Quarterly 44:166-203.
7. -. 1988a. Quality assessment and assurance: Unity of purpose, diversity of means. Inquiry 25 (1): 173-92.
8. -. 1988b. The quality of care: How can it be assessed? Journal of the American Medical Association 260:1743-48.
9. Grabowski, D. C. 2001. Does an increase in the Medicaid reimbursement rate improve nursing home quality? Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences 56B (2): S84-S93.
10. Harrington, C., and J. H. Swan. 2003. Nursing home staffing, turnover and case mix. Medical Care Research and Review 60 (3): 366-92.
11. Institute of Medicine. 2000. Improving the quality of nursing home care. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
12. Leon, J. 2001. Pennsylvania's front-line workers in long term care. Jenkintown, PA: Polisher Research Institute at the Philadelphia Geriatric Center.
13. Mor, V., and J. Zinn. 2002. Quality implications of the two-tiered nursing home system. Paper presented at the Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy Annual Research Meeting, 24 June, Washington D.C.
14. Nursing Executive Center. 1999. A misplaced focus: Reexamining the recruitment/retention trade-off. Washington, DC: Advisory Board Company.
15. -. 2000. The nurse perspective: Drivers of nurse job satisfaction and turnover. Washington, DC: Advisory Board Company.
16. Seago, J. A., M. Ash, J. Spetz, J. Coffman, and K. Grumbach. 2001. Hospital registered nurse shortages: Environmental, patient, and institutional predictors. Health Services Research 36 (5): 998-1116.
17. United States Center for Medicare and Medicaid Studies. 2001. Appropriateness of minimum nurse staffing ratios in nursing homes. Phase 2 final, vols. 1-3. Baltimore: United States Center for Medicare and Medicaid Studies.
18. U.S. General Accounting Office. 2001. Nursing workforce: Recruitment and retention of nurses and nurse aides is a growing concern. Report no. GAO-01-750T. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office.
19. -. 2002. Nursing homes: Quality of care more related to staffing than spending. Report no. GAO-02-431R. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office.
20. -. 2003. Skilled nursing facilities: Available data show average nursing staff time changed little after Medicare payment increase. Report no. GAO-03-176. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office.
21. Zinn, J., V. Mor, and P. Gozalo. 2000. The impact of Medicare's prospective payment system for skilled nursing facilities. Advances in Healthcare Management 1:126-63.