Improving the Quality of Care in Nursing Homes

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Underperforming Nursing Homes

In brief

The overall goal of this project is to increase the number of high quality nursing homes in Massachusetts. The study will evaluate an intervention involving two active treatment arms: one implementing a CQI program and a second implementing the CQI program and specific protocol programming. The intervention will be implemented in 24 nursing homes identified as performing, over multiple quality indicator domains, at a poor or average level across multiple outcome domains.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00572221

Run by

Hebrew SeniorLife

People needed

4316

Starts

2006-02-01

Expected to finish

2010-01-01

Last updated by the study team

2013-03-20

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Men and Women
• Residents of long-term care facilities in Massachusetts who have had
• a Minimum Data Set assessment completed by the facility in the last 90 days.

You may not qualify if…

• None

Where it is running

• Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew Senior Life — Roslindale, Massachusetts, United States

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