title: Improving the outcomes of home care services in New York State: a national model.
abstract: Despite the rapid growth of Medicaid home care services, no uniform system for measuring and improving the quality of these services has been implemented on a large scale. The Personal and Skilled Care Outcomes (PESO) data set was developed to provide non-Medicare-certified home care agencies with a data set to support the systematic assessment and improvement of patient outcomes. This article describes the key features of the data set and outlines ways that a PESO-based outcome-based quality improvement process can be refined to accommodate the unique mix of services provided by home care agencies serving the Medicaid and private-pay populations.
authors.affiliation: University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado 80045, USA. angela.brega@ucdenver.edu
authors.forename: Angela G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Brega
authors.forename: Kathryn S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Crisler
authors.forename: Nancy R
authors.initials: NR
authors.lastname: Barhydt
mesh_terms: D006699:Home Care Services / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D008004:Licensure / Q000592:standards*; D008484:Medicaid / Q000592:standards*; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009518:New York; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014481:United States