title: Proxy case mix measures for nursing homes.
abstract: Nursing home case mix measures are needed for the same purposes that spurred the intensive development of case mix measures for hospitals: management and planning decisions, organizational performance research, and reimbursement policy analysis. This paper develops and validates a pair of complementary measures that are simple to compute, are easy to interpret, and use generally available data. They are not, however, definitive. A secondary purpose of this paper is thus to galvanize the development of data bases that will give rise to superior case mix measures for nursing homes.
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods; D003953:Diagnosis-Related Groups; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000379:methods; D009732:Nursing Care; D009735:Nursing Homes; D014481:United States