The restructuring and evaluation of the patient medical review in New York State.
The dramatic increase in the number of elderly persons in the population has led to tremendous increases in the number of nursing home beds; this in turn has made monitoring the quality of nursing home care even more difficult. The authors briefly detail the development of the federally mandated periodic medical review/independent professional review, and discuss how New York State took this program one step further and improved upon it.
D006801:Humans; D009518:New York; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000592:standards*; D009735:Nursing Homes / Q000592:standards*; D011635:Public Health Administration; D011787:Quality of Health Care