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Advancing Nursing Home Quality Through Quality Improvement Itself

Rachel M. Werner, R. Tamara Konetzka

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The traditional approaches to improving the quality of care at U.S. nursing homes--regulation, inspection, and accountability through public reporting--have produced modest results. Greater progress could be made by focusing incentives on broader processes related to improving quality. This could foster a culture of upstream identification and solving of problems that would supplement existing downstream requirements to meet specific safety and care standards.

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Key concepts: Accountability, Quality (philosophy), Incentive, Upstream (networking), Downstream (manufacturing), Business, Nursing, Identification (biology)