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Article: Quality indicators: the new survey tool. (nursing homes)
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- Nursing Homes
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- November 1, 1997
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Much interest has been generated in nursing homes using quality indicators (QIs) to identify potential quality concerns. Thanks to HCFA's multiyear research partnership with the University of Wisconsin's Center for Health Systems Research and Analysis, Dr. David Zimmerman's work on QIs has provided a foundation for both internal and external quality assessment. The result is a newly emerging use of QIs by state surveyors to identify, investigate and evaluate potential quality problems before, during and between surveys.
Dr. Zimmerman and his research team developed and tested the use of QIs drawn from a subset of responses from the Resident Assessment Instrument. The ...