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New Frontiers in Long-Term Care Quality:
Brief from Mathematica Offers Ways to Reduce Hospitalizations
and Improve Transitions for People Using Long-Term Care
Media Advisory: March 10, 2010
Contact: Amy Berridge, (609) 945-3378; Debra J. Lipson, (301) 244-0399
Issue: A new issue brief from Mathematica Policy Research identifies ways to measure and reduce potentially avoidable hospitalizations and improve the quality of long-term care for people in nursing homes and other home- and community-based service settings.
Quote: “In the past decade, we’ve developed quality data for hospitals and other acute care settings. Along those lines, we suggest creating validated measures of avoidable hospitalizations and care transitions for people in long-term care,” says Mathematica senior researcher Debra J. Lipson, co-author of the brief. “Adopting evidence-based care models and interventions more widely, and encouraging financial incentives for providers to measure and improve performance could also improve care for these individuals.”
Brief: “Quality’s New Frontier: Reducing Hospitalizations and Improving Transitions in Long-Term Care,” Debra J. Lipson and Samuel Simon, March 2010.
About Mathematica: Mathematica Policy Research, a nonpartisan research firm, provides a full range of research and data collection services, including program evaluation and policy research, survey design and data collection, research assessment and interpretation, and program performance/data management, to improve public well-being. Its clients include federal and state governments, foundations, and private-sector and international organizations. The employee-owned company, with offices in Princeton, N.J., Ann Arbor, Mich., Cambridge, Mass., Chicago, Ill., Oakland, Calif., and Washington, D.C., has conducted some of the most important studies of health care, international, disability, education, family support, employment, nutrition, and early childhood policies and programs.