Best at Home : Assuring Quality Long-Term Care in Home and Community-Based Settings / Committee on the Quality of Long-Term Care Services in Home and Community-Based Settings, Division of Health Care Services
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[Place of publication not identified] : National Academies Press
""Best at Home: Assuring Quality Long-Term Care in Home and Community-Based Settings""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Summary""; ""ORIGINS OF THIS PLANNING ACTIVITY""; ""OVERVIEW OF HOME AND COMMUNITY-BASED LONG-TERM CARE""; ""CURRENT QUALITY ASSURANCE AND IMPROVEMENT STRATEGIES""; ""FUTURE STUDY PLAN""; ""1 Introduction and Background""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""ORIGINS OF THIS PLANNING ACTIVITY""; ""STUDY APPROACH""; ""DEFINITIONS AND CONCEPTS USED IN THIS REPORT""; ""Long-Term Care""; ""Disability""; ""Home Care""; ""Residential Care Settings""
""Home and Community-Based Care""""Quality of Care""; ""ORGANIZATION OF THIS REPORT""; ""2 Long-Term Care in Home and Community-Based Settings""; ""OVERVIEW""; ""People Who Use Home and Community-Based Long-Term Care""; ""Home Care""; ""Residential Care""; ""Payers for Home and Community-Based Long-Term Care""; ""Providers of Home and Community-Based Long-Term Care""; ""Home Care""; ""Residential Care""; ""TRENDS IN HOME AND COMMUNITY-BASED CARE""; ""Shifts in Attitudes About the Provision of Care""; ""Growing Population of Consumers""
""Changes in the Supply and Roles of Informal Caregivers""""Heightened Concerns About Cost, Access, and Availability of Services""; ""Increase in Service Delivery Experimentation""; ""Growing Concerns About Quality""; ""SUMMARY""; ""3 Current Quality Assurance and Improvement Strategies""; ""QUALITY MEASURES""; ""TYPES OF QUALITY ASSURANCE AND IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS""; ""External Quality Assurance Programs""; ""Federal and State Regulation""; ""Voluntary Accreditation""; ""Other Quality-Related Mechanisms""; ""Internal Quality Assurance Programs""
""ASSESSMENT OF QUALITY ASSURANCE AND IMPROVEMENT STRATEGIES""""Are Quality Assurance and Improvement Strategies Appropriate?""; ""Are Quality Assurance and Improvement Strategies Effective?""; ""Are Quality Assurance and Improvement Strategies Adequate?""; ""Concluding Thoughts""; ""SUMMARY""; ""4 Future Study Plan""; ""STUDY CONCEPT AND KEY QUESTIONS""; ""Key Study Questions""; ""STUDY ACTIVITIES""; ""Study Committee""; ""Data Collection""; ""Development of Recommendations and Products""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""5 Conclusions""; ""References""; ""APPENDIX A Legislative Mandate for IOM Studies""
""TITLE II�ADMINISTRATION""""APPENDIX B Committee Biographies""; ""APPENDIX C Workshop Agenda and Participants""; ""AGENDA""; ""PARTICIPANTS""
