An examination of special focus facility nursing homes

Gerontologist

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 400-407

  Castle, Nicholas G ^a   Engberg, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Nursing Homes; Quality of care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CERTIFICATION; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NURSING HOME; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

CERTIFICATION; DATA COLLECTION; DECISION MAKING; NURSING HOMES; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77952501148     PISSN: 00169013     EISSN: 17585341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geront/gnq008     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Abt Associates. (2004). National nursing home quality measures: User's manual November 2004 (v1.2). Cambridge, MA: Author.
2. Barnett, A., van der Pols, J. C., & Dobson, A. J. (2005). Regression to the mean: What it is and how to deal with it. International Journal of Epidemiology, 34, 215-220.
3. Bourbonniere, M., Intrator, O., Mor, V., Feng, Z., Angelelli, J., & Zinn, J. (2006). The use of contract licensed nursing staff in U.S. nursing facilities. Medical Care Research and Review, 63, 88-109.
4. Castle, N. G. (2008). Nursing home caregiver staffing levels and quality of care: A literature review. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 27, 375-405.
5. Castle, N. G., Sonon, K., & Antonova, J. (2009). The impact of special focus facility nursing homes on market quality. The Gerontologist. doi:10.1093/geront/gnq006.
6. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. (2004). Improving enforcement via the special focus facility program for nursing homes (Ref: S&C-05-13). Washington, DC: Department of Health & Human Services
7. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. (2008). Action plan for (further improvement of) nursing home quality. Retrieved November 10, 2009, from http://www.cms.hhs.gov/certificationandcomplianc/downloads/sfflist.pdf
8. General Accounting Office. (1999). Nursing homes: Additional steps needed to strengthen enforcement of federal quality standards (GAO/HEHS-99-46). Washington, DC: Author.
9. General Accounting Office. (2002). Nursing homes: Public reporting of quality indicators has merit, but national implementation is premature (GAO-03-187). Washington, DC: Author.
10. Grabowski, D. C. (2001). Does an increase in the Medicaid reimbursement rate improve nursing home quality? Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 56, S84-S93.
11. Grabowski, D. C., Feng, Z., Intrator, O., & Mor, V. (2004). Recent trends in state nursing home payment policies. Health Affairs, W4, 363-373.
12. Kash, B. A., Hawes, C., & Phillips, C. D. (2007). Comparing staffing levels in the Online Survey Certification and Reporting (OSCAR) system with the Medicaid Cost Report data: Are differences systematic? The Gerontologist, 47, 480-489.
13. Mor, V. (2004). A comprehensive clinical assessment tool to inform policy and practice: Applications of the minimum data set. Medical Care, 42(Suppl. 4), 50-59.
14. Mor, V., Zinn, J., Angelelli, J., Teno, J. M., & Miller, S. C. (2004). Driven to tiers: Socioeconomic and racial disparities in the quality of nursing home care. Milbank Quarterly, 82, 227-256.
15. Morton, V., & Torgerson, D. J. (2003). Effect of regression to the mean on decision making in health care. British Medical Journal, 326, 1083-1084.
16. State Operations Manual. (2009). Washington, DC: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Retrieved November 10, 2009, from www.cms.hhs.gov/manuals.