Minnesota's provider-initiated approach yields care quality gains at participating nursing homes

Health Affairs

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1631-1638

  Arling, Greg ^a   Cooke, Valerie ^b   Lewis, Teresa ^b   Perkins, Anthony ^a   Grabowski, David C ^c   Abrahamson, Kathleen ^d  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Minnesota Department of Human Services   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; NURSING HOME; NURSING STAFF; QUALITY OF LIFE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

ELDERLY; LONG-TERM CARE; MEDICAID; ORGANIZATION AND DELIVERY OF CARE; QUALITY OF CARE;

HUMANS; MINNESOTA; NURSING HOMES; ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REIMBURSEMENT, INCENTIVE;

EID: 84885345571     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2013.0294     Document Type: Article

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