Use of nursing home compare website appears limited by lack of awareness and initial mistrust of the data

Health Affairs

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 706-713

  Tamara Konetzka, R ^a   Perraillon, Marcelo Coca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; CONSUMER; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FAMILY; FRIEND; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNET; MEDICAID; NURSING HOME; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TRUST; AGED; AGING; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HOME FOR THE AGED; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MALE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STANDARDS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AWARENESS; CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES (U.S.); DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSING HOMES; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84964923610     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2015.1377     Document Type: Article

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