QOL - Quality Indicator Links
Agency for Health Care Quality and Research
Report (1999): Long-Term Care: Quality of Care is Most Important Nursing Home Measure
http://www.ahcpr.gov/research/jun99/ra7.htm
American Geriatrics Society (AGS)
Position Statement: Measuring Quality of Care for Nursing Home Residents - Considering Unintended Consequences
http://www.americangeriatrics.org/products/positionpapers/unintended_conseq.shtml
American Health Quality Association
www.ahqa.org
Center for Health Systems Research and Analysis
University of Wisconsin at Madison
Developed the nursing home quality measures used by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
http://www.chsra.wisc.edu
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Nursing Home Quality Initiative
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/
Commonwealth Fund
Report (2001): Promoting Quality in Nursing Homes: The Well Spring Model
http://www.cmwf.org/
Medicare: Nursing Homes Compare
http://www.medicare.gov/NHCompare/include/DataSection/Questions/SearchCriteria.asp
National Citizens Coalition on Nursing Home Reform
http://www.nccnhr.org/default.cfm
U.S. General Accounting Office
Report (2002): Nursing Homes: Quality of Care More Related to Staffing than Spending
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d02431r.pdf
U.S. Office of the Inspector General
Report (2003): Quality Assurance Committees in Nursing Homes
http://oig.hhs.gov/oei/reports/oei-01-01-00090.pdf
Report (1999): Long-Term Care: Quality of Care is Most Important Nursing Home Measure
http://www.ahcpr.gov/research/jun99/ra7.htm
American Geriatrics Society (AGS)
Position Statement: Measuring Quality of Care for Nursing Home Residents - Considering Unintended Consequences
http://www.americangeriatrics.org/products/positionpapers/unintended_conseq.shtml
American Health Quality Association
www.ahqa.org
Center for Health Systems Research and Analysis
University of Wisconsin at Madison
Developed the nursing home quality measures used by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
http://www.chsra.wisc.edu
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Nursing Home Quality Initiative
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/
Commonwealth Fund
Report (2001): Promoting Quality in Nursing Homes: The Well Spring Model
http://www.cmwf.org/
Medicare: Nursing Homes Compare
http://www.medicare.gov/NHCompare/include/DataSection/Questions/SearchCriteria.asp
National Citizens Coalition on Nursing Home Reform
http://www.nccnhr.org/default.cfm
U.S. General Accounting Office
Report (2002): Nursing Homes: Quality of Care More Related to Staffing than Spending
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d02431r.pdf
U.S. Office of the Inspector General
Report (2003): Quality Assurance Committees in Nursing Homes
http://oig.hhs.gov/oei/reports/oei-01-01-00090.pdf
