Linking patient safety culture to quality ratings in the nursing home setting.

Naomi Yount; Katarzyna A Zebrak; Theresa Famolaro; Joann Sorra; Rebecca Birch

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Linking patient safety culture to quality ratings in the nursing home setting.

December 9, 2020

Yount N, Zebrak KA, Famolaro T, et al. J Appl Gerontol. 2021;41(1):73-81.

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Based on data from Nursing Home Compare and a national survey on patient safety culture in nursing homes, the authors found that nursing homes with better patient safety cultures tend to have higher quality ratings, which is consistent with other earlier findings.

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