The quality of nursing homes (NHs) has attracted a lot of interest in recent years and is one of the most challenging issues for policy-makers. Nutritional care should be considered an important variable to be measured from the perspective of quality management. The aim of this systematic review is to describe the use of structural, process, and outcome indicators of nutritional care in NHs and the relationship among them. Our findings show that a consensus must be reached for defining a set of indicators and standards to improve quality in NHs. Establishing the relationship between structural, process, and outcome indicators is a challenge. There are grounds for investigating this theme by means of prospective longitudinal studies that take the risk adjustment into account

Process, structural, and outcome quality indicators of nutritional care in nursing homes: a systematic review / Chiara Lorini, Barbara Rita Porchia, Francesca Pieralli, Guglielmo Bonaccorsi. - In: BMC HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH. - ISSN 1472-6963. - ELETTRONICO. - 18:(2018), pp. 43-57.

Process, structural, and outcome quality indicators of nutritional care in nursing homes: a systematic review.

Chiara Lorini;Barbara Rita Porchia;Francesca Pieralli;Guglielmo Bonaccorsi
2018

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The quality of nursing homes (NHs) has attracted a lot of interest in recent years and is one of the most challenging issues for policy-makers. Nutritional care should be considered an important variable to be measured from the perspective of quality management. The aim of this systematic review is to describe the use of structural, process, and outcome indicators of nutritional care in NHs and the relationship among them. Our findings show that a consensus must be reached for defining a set of indicators and standards to improve quality in NHs. Establishing the relationship between structural, process, and outcome indicators is a challenge. There are grounds for investigating this theme by means of prospective longitudinal studies that take the risk adjustment into account
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Chiara Lorini, Barbara Rita Porchia, Francesca Pieralli, Guglielmo Bonaccorsi
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