The Region Umbria has conducted a survey on elderly patients living in long term care facilities since the year 2000. Repeated measurements of items on health conditions are taken for classifying care facilities to allocate resources (RUG system). We wish to evaluate the performance of the nursing homes in terms of the quality of life of patients. To this end, a Multilevel Latent Class Model with covariates is employed. Ten items, surveying activities of daily living, nutrition and decubitus ulcers, are selected to meas-ure the latent variable related to quality of life. The probability of belonging to a latent class is modeled in terms of available covariates
Multilevel Latent Class Models for evaluation of long term care facilities
MONTANARI, Giorgio Eduardo;RANALLI, Maria Giovanna;EUSEBI, PAOLO
2007
Abstract
The Region Umbria has conducted a survey on elderly patients living in long term care facilities since the year 2000. Repeated measurements of items on health conditions are taken for classifying care facilities to allocate resources (RUG system). We wish to evaluate the performance of the nursing homes in terms of the quality of life of patients. To this end, a Multilevel Latent Class Model with covariates is employed. Ten items, surveying activities of daily living, nutrition and decubitus ulcers, are selected to meas-ure the latent variable related to quality of life. The probability of belonging to a latent class is modeled in terms of available covariatesI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
