Variations in quality of Home Care between sites across Europe, as measured by Home Care Quality Indicators

Aging Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 323-329

  Bos, Judith T ^a   Frijters, Dinnus H M ^b   Wagner, Cordula ^a,m   Carpenter, G Iain ^c   Finne Soveri, Harriet ^d   Topinkova, Eva ^e   Garms Homolová, Vjenka ^f   Henrard, Jean Claude ^g   Jónsson, Pálmi V ^h   Sørbye, Liv ⁱ   Ljunggren, Gunnar ^j   Schroll, Marianne ^k   Gambassi, Giovanni ^l   Bernabei, Roberto ^l  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^e CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^f Institut für Gesundheitsanalysen und soziale Konzepte e V   (Germany)

^g LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^h LANDSPITALI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Iceland)

ⁱ VID SPECIALIZED UNIVERSITY   (Norway)

^j KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^k BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^l CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^m NONE   (Netherlands)

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Author keywords

Home Care; MDS HC; Quality improvement; Quality indicators; RAI HC

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CZECH REPUBLIC; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISEASE CONTROL; EUROPE; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOME CARE; HUMAN; ITALY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PAIN; POPULATION SIZE; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZATION; REHABILITATION CARE; SAMPLE SIZE; SCORING SYSTEM; URBAN AREA; VARIANCE;

EID: 34848901071     PISSN: 15940667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03324709     Document Type: Article

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