Advancing Nursing Home Quality Through Quality Improvement Itself

Overview

Journal Health Aff (Millwood)

Specialty Health Services

Date 2010 Jan 6

PMID 20048364

Citations 8

Authors

Rachel M Werner

R Tamara Konetzka

Affiliations

Soon will be listed here.

Abstract

The traditional approaches to improving the quality of care at U.S. nursing homes--regulation, inspection, and accountability through public reporting--have produced modest results. Greater progress could be made by focusing incentives on broader processes related to improving quality. This could foster a culture of upstream identification and solving of problems that would supplement existing downstream requirements to meet specific safety and care standards.

Citing Articles

What Can Economics Say about Alzheimer's Disease?.

Chandra A, Coile C, Mommaerts C J Econ Lit. 2025; 61(2):428-470.

PMID: 39917255 PMC: 11801801. DOI: 10.1257/jel.20211660.

Risk of Discharge to Lower-Quality Nursing Homes Among Hospitalized Older Adults With Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias.

Kosar C, Mor V, Werner R, Rahman M JAMA Netw Open. 2023; 6(2):e2255134.

PMID: 36753276 PMC: 9909503. DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.55134.

Quality improvement studies in nursing homes: a scoping review.

Toles M, Colon-Emeric C, Moreton E, Frey L, Leeman J BMC Health Serv Res. 2021; 21(1):803.

PMID: 34384404 PMC: 8361800. DOI: 10.1186/s12913-021-06803-8.

Implementation fidelity of the Systems for Person-Centered Elder Care (SPEC): a process evaluation study.

Choi H, Jung Y, Kim H Implement Sci. 2021; 16(1):52.

PMID: 33980251 PMC: 8117605. DOI: 10.1186/s13012-021-01113-3.

Using Phenomenological Hermeneutics to Understand the Experiences of Managers Working with Quality Improvement Strategies in an Assisted Living Facility.

Singh J, Wiese A, Sillerud B Healthcare (Basel). 2019; 7(3).

PMID: 31284684 PMC: 6787700. DOI: 10.3390/healthcare7030087.