Improving the Quality of Care in Nursing Homes

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

4316 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2006-02-28

Study Completion Date

2010-01-31

Brief Summary

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The overall goal of this project is to increase the number of high quality nursing homes in Massachusetts. The study will evaluate an intervention involving two active treatment arms: one implementing a CQI program and a second implementing the CQI program and specific protocol programming. The intervention will be implemented in 24 nursing homes identified as performing, over multiple quality indicator domains, at a poor or average level across multiple outcome domains.

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Detailed Description

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Nursing facilities as well as CMS and state governments are under pressure to find cost-effective methods to improve quality, particularly in poor and average facilities. In our prior work, we found that better performing facilities make more extensive use of CQI mechanisms, have more protocol driven problem advanced resolution mechanisms and systematically address multiple areas Both arms of the study apply the same standardized approach to CQI, while one arm will include specific best-practice care strategies targeted at identified problems. The study will evaluate whether the CQI program improves quality indicator scores in multiple domains, relative to control facilities, and whether improvement is greater in facilities that also utilize the study's best-practice protocols.

The study consent form describes the MDS assessment (used to evaluate the reliability of the facility's assessment), including items to be reviewed and how information will be obtained. The subject is informed that there is no known risk for participating in research, the purpose of which is to determine if the intervention improves nursing home care in Massachusetts

The outcomes will be reviewed by means of a change in twelve quality indicator scores: ADL decline, ADL decline following improvement, Mobility change, walking improvement, cognitive change, communication change, bowel continence change, bladder continence change, depressed mood change, new insertion of an indwelling urinary catheter, infection prevalence, worsening pain.

Conditions

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Underperforming Nursing Homes

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Investigators

Study Groups

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CQI Program Only

The main intervention is a facility-wide Continuing Quality Improvement and Quality Assurance system, with problem recognition and ongoing evaluation. (The SAVE+ intervention, the CQI system with facility responsible for identifying or designing care protocols for the identified problem condition.)

Group Type OTHER

Continuing Quality Improvement and Quality Assurance system

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

The main intervention is a facility-wide Continuing Quality Improvement and Quality Assurance system, with problem recognition and ongoing evaluation.

CQI Program and Best-Practice Care Protocols

A facility-wide Continuing Quality Improvement and Quality Assurance system, with problem recognition and ongoing evaluation. Research clinical staff will also provide best-practice care protocols designed by our research team to address targeted problem conditions. (The SAVE+ intervention, a CQI system plus best-practice protocols designed by study team to address identified problem condition.)

Group Type OTHER

CQI and QA System with Best-Practice Care Protocols

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

A facility-wide Continuing Quality Improvement and Quality Assurance system, with problem recognition and ongoing evaluation. Research clinical staff will also provide best-practice care protocols designed by our research team to address targeted problem conditions.

Interventions

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Continuing Quality Improvement and Quality Assurance system

The main intervention is a facility-wide Continuing Quality Improvement and Quality Assurance system, with problem recognition and ongoing evaluation.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

CQI and QA System with Best-Practice Care Protocols

A facility-wide Continuing Quality Improvement and Quality Assurance system, with problem recognition and ongoing evaluation. Research clinical staff will also provide best-practice care protocols designed by our research team to address targeted problem conditions.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Men and Women
* Residents of long-term care facilities in Massachusetts who have had
* a Minimum Data Set assessment completed by the facility in the last 90 days.