Castle Nicholas G, Fogel Barry S
RAND, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Health Care Manage Rev. 2002 Spring;27(2):7-17. doi: 10.1097/00004010-200204000-00002.
This article compares 4,220 nursing homes whose administrators belonged to a long-term-care professional association to 12,322 nursing homes whose administrators did not belong to a long-term-care professional association. The research results show that professional membership is associated with higher quality of care on several measures and with a higher private-pay proportion. The study suggests that these facilities do not do better because they have more resources or because they care for less-challenging residents-they do better because they have a professional association as a resource.
本文将4220家其管理人员隶属于长期护理专业协会的疗养院与12322家其管理人员不属于长期护理专业协会的疗养院进行了比较。研究结果表明，在多项衡量标准上，专业会员资格与更高的护理质量以及更高的自费比例相关。该研究表明，这些机构表现更优并非因为它们拥有更多资源，也不是因为它们照料的居民难度较低——它们表现更优是因为它们拥有专业协会这一资源。
