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Quality of Healthcare in US Hospitals Factors Associated with CMS HAC-POA Fall Rates among the Elderly Population
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| 자료유형 | 학위논문 |
|---|---|
| 서명/저자사항 | Quality of Healthcare in US Hospitals Factors Associated with CMS HAC-POA Fall Rates among the Elderly Population. |
| 개인저자 | El Desoki, Rania Mohsen. |
| 단체저자명 | The University of Wisconsin - Madison. Industrial Engineering. |
| 발행사항 | [S.l.]: The University of Wisconsin - Madison., 2019. |
| 발행사항 | Ann Arbor: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019. |
| 형태사항 | 225 p. |
| 기본자료 저록 | Dissertations Abstracts International 81-04A. Dissertation Abstract International |
| ISBN | 9781687937889 |
| 학위논문주기 | Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2019. |
| 일반주기 |
Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-04, Section: A.
Advisor: Bier, Vicki. |
| 이용제한사항 | This item must not be sold to any third party vendors. |
| 요약 | Recognizing the necessity for quality in hospital care, and the importance of reducing the rate of elderly inpatient falls, this thesis conducts an exploratory analysis using multivariate statistical regression on national hospital-level data of injurious falls, from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), recorded after implementing the Hospital Acquired Conditions-Present on Admission quality initiative. This observational study attempts to identify possible correlations between falls and 24 independent variables, to guide further research to explore reasons for any identified relationships.Inpatient fall rates have been studied previously, but typically only one or two possible explanatory variables were considered, and data on only a limited number of hospitals was used. This study considered 1,000+ large hospitals nationwide, using data from six open-source datasets. The use of large databases helped identify statistically significant effects, while using data on multiple independent variables reduced problems of confounding. The independent variable categories were: 1. Nursing staff |
| 일반주제명 | Public health. Nursing. Gerontology. Health care management. |
| 언어 | 영어 |
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