Validity of Diagnostic and Drug Data in Standardized Nursing Home Resident Assessments

Autor: Gambassi, Giovanni, Landi, Francesco, Peng, Lei, Brostrup-Jensen, Chris, Calore, Kathleen, Hiris, Jeffrey, Lipsitz, Lewis, Mor, Vincent, Bernabei, Roberto
Zdroj: Medical Care; February 1998, Vol. 36 Issue: 2 p167-179, 13p
Abstrakt: The Health Care Financing Administration requires that patients admitted to certified nursing homes be assessed with the Minimum Data Set, a data collection instrument containing more than 300 demographic, diagnostic, clinical, and treatment variables. Long-term care databases potentially may be used to assess the outcomes of specific treatments as well as drug effectiveness.
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