title: Facility-level outcome performance measures for nursing homes.
abstract: Risk-adjusted nursing home performance scores were developed for four health outcomes and five quality indicators from resident-level longitudinal case-mix reimbursement data for Medicaid residents of more than 500 nursing homes in Massachusetts. Facility performance was measured by comparing actual resident outcomes with expected outcomes derived from quarterly predictions of resident-level econometric models over a 3-year period (1991-1994). Performance measures were tightly distributed among facilities in the state. The intercorrelations among the nine outcome performance measures were relatively low and not uniformly positive. Performance measures were not highly associated with various structural facility attributes. For most outcomes, longitudinal analyses revealed only modest correlations between a facility's performance score from one time period to the next. Relatively few facilities exhibited consistent superior or inferior performance over time. The findings have implications toward the practical use of facility outcome performance measures for quality assurance and reimbursement purposes in the near future.
authors.affiliation: Gerontology Institute, University of Massachusetts, Boston 02125-3393, USA. porell@umbsky.cc.umb.edu
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Porell
authors.forename: F G
authors.initials: FG
authors.lastname: Caro
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D003953:Diagnosis-Related Groups; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008134:Long-Term Care; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D008404:Massachusetts; D008484:Medicaid; D009735:Nursing Homes / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D003668:Pressure Ulcer / Q000453:epidemiology; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012106:Research; D012149:Restraint, Physical; D015996:Survival Rate; D013997:Time Factors; D014481:United States