Nursing Home Staffing and Its Relationship to Deficiencies
The Journals of Gerontology Series BPublished 1 September 2000
Charlene Harrington, David Zimmerman, Sarita L. Karon, J. E. M. Robinson, Patricia Beutel
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Facility characteristics and states were stronger predictors of deficiencies than were staffing hours and resident characteristics, and much work remains to explore factors that influence deficiencies.
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Facility characteristics and states were stronger predictors of deficiencies than were staffing hours and resident characteristics. Because only a small portion of the total variance in deficiencies could be explained, much work remains to explore factors that influence deficiencies.
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