Observational Evidence of For-Profit Delivery and Inferior Nursing Home Care: When Is There Enough Evidence for Policy Change?
review · Level V
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 27093442.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001995 and PMC identifier 4836753.
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Abstract
Margaret McGregor and colleagues consider Bradford Hill's framework for examining causation in observational research for the association between nursing home care quality and for-profit ownership.
Medical subject headings
- Commerce
- Contract Services
- Delivery of Health Care
- Health Policy
- Homes for the Aged
- Nursing Homes
- Ownership
- Policy Making
- Quality Indicators, Health Care