title: Entrepreneurial program of research and service to improve nursing home care.
abstract: This is a methodological article intended to demonstrate the integration of multiple goals, multiple projects with diverse foci, and multiple funding sources to develop an entrepreneurial program of research and service to directly affect and improve the quality of care of older adults, particularly nursing home residents. Examples that illustrate how clinical ideas build on one another and how the research ideas and results build on one another are provided. Results from one study are applied to the next and are also applied to the development of service delivery initiatives to test results in the real world. Descriptions of the Quality Improvement Program for Missouri and the Aging in Place Project are detailed to illustrate real-world application of research to practice.
authors.affiliation: University of Missouri-Columbia, USA.
authors.forename: Marilyn J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Rantz
authors.forename: David R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Mehr
authors.forename: Lanis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hicks
authors.forename: Jill
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Scott-Cawiezell
authors.forename: Gregory F
authors.initials: GF
authors.lastname: Petroski
authors.forename: Richard W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Madsen
authors.forename: Rose
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Porter
authors.forename: Mary
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zwygart-Stauffacher
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D016520:Entrepreneurship; D005381:Financing, Organized; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008134:Long-Term Care; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009735:Nursing Homes / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011787:Quality of Health Care