Evaluating the effectiveness of nursing home administrations.
There has been little previous research on the determinants of the effectiveness of health care administrators. This research gap pertains to virtually all health care areas but is especially germane to the long-term care field, which has only recently witnessed professional growth in nursing home associations and administrator licensing, education, and ethical behavior. The present study examines the effectiveness of nursing home administrators according to economic criteria (costs and profits per patient per day). Multiple regression analysis was used to determine structure and process variables related to those effectiveness measures. Results indicate that process variable which are controllable by administrators themselves account for the bulk of the variability in nursing home administrator effectiveness.
D002140:California; D004526:Efficiency; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006270:Health Facility Administrators; D006801:Humans; D009735:Nursing Homes / Q000191:economics*; D012044:Regression Analysis