Assessment of nursing home reporting of major injury falls for quality measurement on nursing home compare

Health Services Research

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2020, Pages 201-210

  Sanghavi, Prachi ^a   Pan, Shengyuan ^a   Caudry, Daryl ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

disparities; falls; long term care; nursing homes; public reporting

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FALLING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NURSING HOME; NURSING MINIMUM DATA SET; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; QUALITY CONTROL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RESIDENTIAL CARE; SELF REPORT; HOME FOR THE AGED; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; MALE; NURSING HOMES; SKILLED NURSING FACILITIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85077911948     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.13247     Document Type: Article

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