(Download) "Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality" by ISNA Bulletin # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
- Author : ISNA Bulletin
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Industries & Professions,Books,Business & Personal Finance,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 62 KB
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Making nursing home quality reports public leads to improved posthospitalization care Public reports on the quality of care are one way to motivate health care institutions to strive for excellence. For example, the Nursing Home Compare Web site, launched in 2002, publicly rates the performance of nursing homes on certain quality measures. The launch of this Web site was associated with improvement in two of the three postacute (posthospitalization) care performance measures: no pain and improved walking. However, it was not linked to fewer potentially preventable reshospitalizations, a broader measure of nursing home postacute care quality, reveals a new study. Rachel M. Werner, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of Pennsylvania, and colleagues used national data collected between 1999 and 2005 on every resident in Medicare- and Medicaid-certified nursing homes. They also used information from Medicare part A claims to determine the number of potential hospital readmissions that could have been prevented. Their analysis was limited to the quality of postacute care rather than long-term care. They compared these quality measures both before the launch of the Nursing Home Compare Web site and after and controlled for secular trends in quality using nursing homes not included in public reporting. The Web site contains reports on 10 quality measures from more than 17,000 nursing homes. The study included information on 8,137 nursing homes and nearly 1 million postacute care stays.
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