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ArticleMedical care research and review : MCRR2019

The Relationship Between Reported Staffing and Expenditures in Nursing Homes.

Hari Sharma, R Tamara Konetzka, Fabrice Smieliauskas

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Article in Medical care research and review : MCRR, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Nursing Home Profit Margins and Citations for Infection Prevention and Control.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2021
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  3. Medicaid and Nursing Home Choice: Why Do Duals End Up in Low-Quality Facilities?Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2020
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Hari SharmaThe University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
R Tamara KonetzkaThe University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Fabrice SmieliauskasThe University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.

Funding

Patient Safety in Nursing Homes: A Closer Look at ImprovementR01HS024967 · AHRQ · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI KONETZKA, RITA TAMARA · 2016 to 2018
$1.4M
AHRQ HHS R01 HS024967
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dramatic improvements in reported nursing home quality, including staffing ratios, have come under increased scrutiny in recent years because they are based on data self-reported by nursing homes. In contrast to other domains, the key mechanism for real improvement in the staffing ratios domain is clearer: to improve scores, nursing homes should increase staffing expenditures. We analyze the relationship between changes in expenditures and reported staffing quality pre- versus post the 5-star rating system. Our results show that the relationship between expenditures and licensed practical nurse staffing is weaker in the post-5-star period, overall, and across subgroups; furthermore, there is a weaker relationship between expenditures and registered nurse staffing among for-profit facilities with a high share of Medicaid residents in the post-5-star period. The weaker relationship between staffing expenditures and staffing scores in the post-5-star era underscores the potential for gaming of the self-reported staffing scores and the need for more reliable sources.

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Health Care CostsHumansLicensed Practical NursesMedicaidMedicareNursesNursing HomesNursing StaffQuality of Health CareSelf ReportUnited StatesMedicare costsnursing homepublic reportingquality of care

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PMID29094651
PMCPMC7478324

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