ArticleAmerican journal of health economics2019
Consumer Response to Composite Ratings of Nursing Home Quality.
Article in American journal of health economics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 37 citations in OpenAlex.
- Digital Public Reporting Systems for Evaluating Health Care Quality: Systematic Review.JMIR medical informatics · 2026Pooled it
- The Readability of Patient-Facing Information in Public Reporting System: Cross-Sectional Evaluation of the City of Helsinki Website.Online journal of public health informatics · 2026Article
- Post-Hospital Access to Preferred and High-Quality Skilled Nursing Facilities for Patients With Opioid Use Disorder.Health services research · 2026Article
- The effect of civil money penalties on the financial performance of nursing homes.Innovation in aging · 2026Article
- Public Reporting and Consumer Demand in the Home Health Sector.Medical care research and review : MCRR · 2024Article
- The health effects of nursing home specialization in post-acute care.Journal of health economics · 2023Article
- Daily Variation in Nursing Home Staffing and Its Association With Quality Measures.JAMA network open · 2022Article
- Consumer selection and home health agency quality and patient experience stars.Health services research · 2022Article
- Relationship Between Nursing Home Compare Improvement in Function Quality Measure and Physical Recovery After Hip Replacement.Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation · 2021Article
- 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 · 2020Article
- Online Reviews of Specialized Drug Treatment Facilities-Identifying Potential Drivers of High and Low Patient Satisfaction.Journal of general internal medicine · 2020Article
- Quality information disclosure and health insurance demand: evidence from VA hospital report cards.International journal of health economics and management · 2020Article
- Persistent geographic variations in availability and quality of nursing home care in the United States: 1996 to 2016.BMC geriatrics · 2019Article
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Abstract
Health care report cards are intended to address information asymmetries and enable consumers to choose providers of better quality. However, the form of the information may matter to consumers. Nursing Home Compare, a website that publishes report cards for nursing homes, went from publishing a large set of indicators to a composite rating in which nursing homes are assigned one to five stars. We evaluate whether the simplified ratings motivated consumers to choose better-rated nursing homes. We use a regression discontinuity design to estimate changes in new admissions six months after the publication of the ratings. Our main results show that nursing homes that obtained an additional star gained more admissions, with heterogeneous effects depending on baseline number of stars. We conclude that the form of quality reporting matters to consumers, and that the increased use of composite ratings is likely to increase consumer response.
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