The future of home and hospice care. Linking interventions to outcomes.
The pressure on home care and hospice nurses to reach successful outcomes in a cost-effective manner mandates that they become well versed in how to analyze data. The goal of outcome research is to relate patient outcomes to the interventions provided. This article discusses the challenges of outcomes research and how it differs from and relates to performance improvement, and it explores solutions to common problems.
Plotkin
K
K
University of Massachusetts, School of Nursing, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. kplotkin@crocker.com
Roche
J
J
D006699:Home Care Services / Q000639:trends*; D017051:Hospice Care / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D009732:Nursing Care; D015399:Nursing Research; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care / Q000145:classification / Q000379:methods*