Measuring and assuring the quality of home health care

The growth in home health care in the United States since 1970, and the exponential increase in the provision of Medicare-covered home health services over the past 5 years, underscores the critical need to assess the effectiveness of home health care in our society. This article presents conceptual...

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Published in:Health care financing review 1994, Vol.16 (1), p.35-67
Main Authors: Shaughnessy, P W, Crisler, K S, Schlenker, R E, Arnold, A G, Kramer, A M, Powell, M C, Hittle, D F
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Clinical outcomes
Data Collection
Evaluation Studies as Topic
Health administration
Health care policy
Health maintenance organizations
Health Services Research
Health Status
HMOs
Home care
Home care services
Home Care Services - standards
Home Care Services - statistics & numerical data
Home care services industry
Home health care
Humans
Issues in Reforming Home Health Care
Long term health care
Measurement
Medical care
Medicare
Medicare - standards
Medicare - statistics & numerical data
Methods
Models, Theoretical
Nursing homes
Outcome Assessment (Health Care) - organization & administration
Outcome Assessment (Health Care) - statistics & numerical data
Patients
Program Development
Quality Assurance, Health Care - organization & administration
Quality Assurance, Health Care - statistics & numerical data
Quality control
Quality management
Quality of Life
Quality of service
Reimbursement
Research Design
Risk Assessment
Statistical analysis
Total quality
United States
Utilization
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Summary:The growth in home health care in the United States since 1970, and the exponential increase in the provision of Medicare-covered home health services over the past 5 years, underscores the critical need to assess the effectiveness of home health care in our society. This article presents conceptual and applied topics and approaches involved in assessing effectiveness through measuring the outcomes of home health care. Definitions are provided for a number of terms that relate to quality of care, outcome measures, risk adjustment, and quality assurance (QA) in home health care. The goal is to provide an overview of a potential systemwide approach to outcome-based QA that has its basis in a partnership between the home health industry and payers or regulators.
ISSN:0195-8631
1554-9887