title: Evidence-based administrative guideline: quality improvement in nursing homes.
abstract: Those staff members involved in a quality improvement program for a nursing home play a significant role in ensuring quality care for older adults. Use of the evidence-based administrative guideline "Quality Improvement in Nursing Homes" (Dyck, 2003) can provide a template for the implementation of a research-based quality program.
authors.affiliation: Mennonite College of Nursing, Illinois State University, Normal, USA.
authors.forename: Mary J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Dyck
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006707:Homes for the Aged / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D009735:Nursing Homes / Q000592:standards*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care; D014481:United States