title: Assessing the quality of residential care for the aged.
abstract: The standard of quality of care in Australian nursing homes is assessed by standards monitoring teams who use their expert judgement and a set of guidelines based on seven objectives and thirty-one standards. In this article, the possibility of supplementing the teams' expert judgement with information gained from standardised questionnaires is explored. Following a review of environment-focussed and resident-focussed instruments, an overview of the scales is provided and the idea of using standardised questionnaires in the standards monitoring process is discussed in terms of possible future developments.
authors: National Centre for Health Program Evaluation.
authors: C J
authors: CJ
authors: Doyle
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001315:Australia; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D008134:Long-Term Care / Q000592:standards*; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000592:standards; D009735:Nursing Homes / Q000592:standards*; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000592:standards*