title: Care planning efficiency for nursing facilities.
abstract: The project reported here is the first in a series of cost analyses regarding the care planning process among 107 facilities. Process-based costing strategies and data envelopment analyses identified nursing facilities with efficient and less-efficient care planning processes. Having more people and more time devoted to the care planning process did not assure quality or efficiency. Efficiency varied across the nursing facilities and was not related to number of beds, profit status, or location; however, Medicare-certified facilities were less likely to be efficient.
authors.affiliation: University of Kansas School of Nursing, Kansas City, KS, USA.
authors.forename: Marjorie J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Bott
authors.forename: Byron
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Gajewski
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Ubolrat
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Piamjariyakul
authors.forename: Roma Lee
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Taunton
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D019985:Benchmarking / Q000458:organization & administration; D003663:Decision Trees; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D005260:Female; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D006278:Medicare; D015146:Midwestern United States; D015401:Nursing Administration Research; D009730:Nursing Assessment / Q000458:organization & administration; D009735:Nursing Homes / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009736:Nursing Process / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D010347:Patient Care Planning / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000458:organization & administration; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013996:Time and Motion Studies