Assessing the outcomes of nursing-home patients.
This paper describes the development of multidimensional measures of nursing-home patients' functioning. The technique was designed to gather information directly from the patients, using demonstrated ability in place of self-report wherever possible. Six domains are tapped: physiologic, activities of daily living, affective, cognitive, social, and satisfaction. Test-retest reliability ranges from .59 for social interaction to .85 for affect. Validity was tested by replication on successive waves of data as well as discriminant and content validity.
D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology; D006262:Health; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D009735:Nursing Homes