title: The National Long Term Care Demonstration: operational issues encountered in developing the research design.
abstract: This paper describes the design of the National Long Term Care Demonstration and its evaluation and discusses a number of operational issues encountered in the design process: simultaneous design of research and operations, identification of the target population, randomization, collection of comparable data, development of an assessment instrument, potential changes in existing programs, and termination planning.
mesh_terms: D006302:Health Services Research; D008134:Long-Term Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012107:Research Design; D014481:United States