The Relationship Between Agency Characteristics and Quality of Home Care
| Autor: | John P. Hirdes, Dawn M. Dalby |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject Population Standardized test Agency (sociology) Home Care Agencies Humans Medicine Quality (business) education Aged Quality Indicators Health Care Quality of Health Care media_common Aged 80 and over Ontario Community and Home Care education.field_of_study business.industry Quality assessment Health Policy Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Case manager Manitoba Middle Aged Service provider Home Care Services Health Care Surveys Family medicine Female business |
| Zdroj: | Home Health Care Services Quarterly. 27:59-74 |
| ISSN: | 1545-0856 0162-1424 |
| Popis: | This project assessed the relationship between home care quality indicators (HCQIs) and agency characteristics.Twelve agencies completed a mailed survey on a variety of characteristics, including size of their caseload and for-profit (FP) status of contracted service providers. The HCQIs were derived from standardized assessments completed voluntarily for home care clients in Ontario and in Manitoba, Canada.The average caseload was 121.3 clients per case manager, and over 40% of nursing, personal support and therapy providers were considered FP. For individual HCQIs, few correlations were statistically significant. An overall summary measure of quality was correlated with the size of the population served (r = -0.80; p0.05) and the number of clients per case manager (r = -0.56; p0.1).These data represent unique information on home care quality and organizational characteristics in Canada. The question remains as to how best to use HCQI data to inform practice in an era of limited resources and increasing caseloads. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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