TY - JOUR AU - Scharpf, Tanya Pollack AU - Colabianchi, Natalie AU - Madigan, Elizabeth A. AU - Neuhauser, Duncan AU - Peng, Timothy AU - Feldman, Penny H. AU - Bridges, John FP PY - 2006 DA - 2006/12/20 TI - Functional status decline as a measure of adverse events in home health care: an observational study JO - BMC Health Services Research SP - 162 VL - 6 IS - 1 AB - Research that examines the quality of home health care is complex because no gold standard exists for measuring adverse outcomes, and because the patient and clinician populations are highly heterogeneous. The objectives in this study are to develop models to predict functional decline for three indices of functional status as measures of adverse events in home health care and determine which index is most appropriate for risk-adjusting for future quality research. SN - 1472-6963 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-6-162 DO - 10.1186/1472-6963-6-162 ID - Scharpf2006 ER -