| Literature DB >> 10435545 |
R A Anderson1, H F Su, P C Hsieh, C A Allred, S Owensby, G Joiner-Rogers.
Abstract
Case mix indicates, for a resident population, the degree of risk for developing favorable or unfavorable outcomes. In a study of 164 nursing homes, we explored two methods for combining resident assessment data into a case mix index (CMI). We compared a facility-level, composite CMI to a prevalence-based CMI comprised of 22 separate resident characteristics for their adequacy in explaining resident outcomes. The prevalence-based CMI consistently explained more variance in outcomes than the facility level, composite CMI. This study indicates a reasonable method for using administrative databases containing resident assessment data to adjust for the influence of case mix on nursing home resident outcomes.Mesh：
Year: 1999 PMID： 10435545 PMCID： PMC1993889 DOI： 10.1002/(sici)1098-240x(199908)22:4<271::aid-nur2>3.0.co;2-6
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Res Nurs Health ISSN： 0160-6891 Impact factor: 2.228