Changes in clinical and hotel expenditures following publication of the nursing home compare report card

Medical Care

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 869-874

  Mukamel, Dana B ^a   Spector, William D ^b   Zinn, Jacqueline ^c   Weimer, David L ^d   Ahn, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY   (United States)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

expenditures; incentives; nursing homes; quality; report cards

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; MEDICARE; NURSING HOME; NURSING MINIMUM DATA SET; ONLINE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREND STUDY; CLASSIFICATION; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEE; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION;

BENCHMARKING; FEES AND CHARGES; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSING HOMES; OWNERSHIP; PRIVATE SECTOR; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77957255101     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e3181eaf6e1     Document Type: Article

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