Edwardson S R, Nardone P
Appl Nurs Res. 1991 Feb;4(1):25-30. doi: 10.1016/s0897-1897(05)80049-7.
Increasing use of home care services in the past decade has led to concern about the nature and number of services provided to clients. Because third party payers have used case mix measures to develop reimbursement systems for acute and long-term care facilities, it seems likely that similar measures will be developed for home care. Three types of home care agencies were studied to test the usefulness of routinely gathered clinical and financial data for predicting resources provided. The findings suggest that current data sources may be inadequate for predicting the actual delivery of services.
在过去十年中，家庭护理服务的使用日益增加，这引发了人们对向客户提供的服务性质和数量的关注。由于第三方支付者已采用病例组合措施来制定急性和长期护理机构的报销系统，因此似乎也会为家庭护理制定类似的措施。对三种类型的家庭护理机构进行了研究，以测试常规收集的临床和财务数据对预测所提供资源的有用性。研究结果表明，目前的数据源可能不足以预测服务的实际提供情况。
