When patients customize nursing home ratings, choices and rankings differ from the government's version

Health Affairs

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 714-719

  Mukamel, Dana B ^a   Amin, Alpesh ^a   Weimer, David L ^b   Sharit, Joseph ^c   Ladd, Heather ^a   Sorkin, Dara H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED STUDY; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NURSING HOME; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOME FOR THE AGED; MALE; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES (U.S.); FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; MALE; NURSING HOMES; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84964948322     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2015.1340     Document Type: Article

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