The Quality Assessment Index (QAI) for measuring nursing home quality.

摘要: There have been few detailed evaluations of measures quality care in nursing homes. This is unfortunate because it has meant that much research on factors affecting home used questionable reliability and validity. Moreover, some currently use developed using methodologies not based solid conceptual grounds, offering little reason to expect them internal or external In this article we suggest characteristics should be present quality, propose a methodology for the development such measures, specific measure (the Quality Assessment Index QAI), report results several tests its validity reliability.