TY - JOUR
T1 - The quality assessment index (QAI) for measuring nursing home quality
AU - Gustafson, D. H.
AU - Sainfort, F. C.
AU - Konigsveld, R. V.
AU - Zimmerman, D. R.
PY - 1990
Y1 - 1990
N2 - There have been few detailed evaluations of measures of quality of care in nursing homes. This is unfortunate because it has meant that much research on factors affecting nursing home quality has used measures of questionable reliability and validity. Moreover, some measures currently in use have been developed using methodologies not based on solid conceptual grounds, offering little reason to expect them to have much internal or external validity. In this article we suggest characteristics that should be present in measures of nursing home quality, propose a methodology for the development of such measures, propose a specific nursing home quality measure (the Quality Assessment Index or QAI), and report the results of several tests of its validity and reliability.
AB - There have been few detailed evaluations of measures of quality of care in nursing homes. This is unfortunate because it has meant that much research on factors affecting nursing home quality has used measures of questionable reliability and validity. Moreover, some measures currently in use have been developed using methodologies not based on solid conceptual grounds, offering little reason to expect them to have much internal or external validity. In this article we suggest characteristics that should be present in measures of nursing home quality, propose a methodology for the development of such measures, propose a specific nursing home quality measure (the Quality Assessment Index or QAI), and report the results of several tests of its validity and reliability.
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M3 - Article
C2 - 2184147
AN - SCOPUS:0025346607
SN - 0017-9124
VL - 25
SP - 97
EP - 127
JO - Health Services Research
JF - Health Services Research
IS - 1 I
ER -