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<h3>Table 1. Summary of Quality Dimensions</h3>
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<th width="17%" scope="col">Organization and <br />delivery</th>
<th width="17%" scope="col">Equity/access</th>
<th width="17%" scope="col">Financial and market issues</th>
<th width="17%" scope="col">Consumer issues</th>
<th width="16%" scope="col">Quality</th>
<th width="16%" scope="col">Methodology</th>
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<td width="17%" valign="top" scope="row"><p>Assess the effect of organizational factors on home care use.</p>
<p>Assess the role of physicians, nurses, and other providers in community care.</p>
<p><strong>Assess the costs and benefits of existing models</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Consumer-directed care.</li>
<li>Program of All Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE).</li>
<li>Social health maintenance organizations (SHMOs).</li>
<li>Continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs).</li>
<li>Family care.</li>
<li>Home care.</li>
<li>Hospice care.</li>
<li>Adult day care.</li>
<li>Chronic care for children.</li>
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<p><strong>Develop new models</strong></p>
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<li>Housing/neighborhood-<br />based care.</li>
<li>Team-based care.</li>
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<p><strong>Assess the effect of long-term care program design</strong></p>
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<li>Eligibility.</li>
<li>Resource allocation.</li>
<li>Financing/caps.</li>
<li>Consumer-directed.</li>
<li>Case management.</li></ul></td>
<td width="17%" valign="top"><p>Measure and reduce disparities across race, ethnicity, and gender.</p>
<p>Understand different cultural models of care.</p>
<p>Study the integration of long- term care with educational services for children.</p>
<p>Monitor State long-term care program variations and assess impact on access to care.</p>
<p>Monitor variations in scope and intensity of children's services.</p>
<p>Assess access to affordable housing and transportation for adults with disabilities.</p>
<p><strong>Influence of financing on equity/access</strong></p>
<p>Monitor distribution of home care expenditures across payment sources (Medicare, Medicaid, private pay, out-of-pocket).</p>
<p>Reduce barriers to services created by categorical funding.</p>
<p>Assess influence of insurance coverage on access to services.</p>
<p><strong>Barriers to access for children</strong></p>
<p>Assess impact of "medically needy" rules.</p>
<p>Identify additional barriers to services for low-income children.</p></td>
<td width="17%" valign="top"><p><strong>Financing of care</strong></p>
<p>Evaluate the impact of aging of population on approaches to financing long-term care.</p>
<p>Impact of Medicare home care prospective payment on:</p>
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<li>Access use, quality, and cost.</li>
<li>Acute care, informal care, and community services.</li>
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<p><strong>Market issues</strong></p>
<p>Monitor changes resulting from growth in managed care and assisted living.</p></td>
<td width="17%" valign="top"><p>Evaluate models of care that expand consumer choices and incorporate consumer preferences.</p>
<p><strong>Family caregiving</strong></p>
<p>Monitor trends in caregiving especially for children and adults with disabilities.</p>
<p>Assess factors influencing decisionmaking, especially effect of formal care on informal care.</p>
<p>Assess caregiver burden and evaluate approaches to burden reduction.</p>
<p>Assess and reduce elder abuse.</p>
<p>Identify approaches to preventing caregiver health problems.</p>
<p><strong>Support for families</strong></p>
<p>Improve quality information to consumers (e.g., report cards).</p>
<p>Develop services to promote self-directed care.</p> </td>
<td width="16%" valign="top"><p>Develop nonregulatory-based approaches to quality assurance.</p>
<p>Understand "dose-response" in home care.</p>
<p><strong>Assessment</strong></p>
<p>Develop standards of care for long-term care.</p>
<p>Monitor safety of care and home environment. </p>
<p>Monitor patient's quality of life.</p>
<p>Evaluate quality of care for board-and-care facilities.</p>
<p>Evaluate impact of informal caregiving on quality of care.</p>
<p>Assess unmet needs.</p>
<p><strong>Care transitions</strong></p>
<p>Assess transition decisions.</p>
<p>Evaluate the costs and benefits of care settings.</p>
<p><strong>Care provision</strong></p>
<p>Determine staffing and skill mix.</p>
<p>Identify best approaches to retaining long-term care staffing and assuring adequate training.</p>
<p>Evaluate medication management.</p> </td>
<td width="16%" valign="top"><p><strong>Develop measures of:</strong></p>
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<li>Consumer satisfaction specific to home care, adult day care, and other services/settings.</li>
<li>Risk-adjusted outcomes.</li>
<li>Processes of care.</li>
<li>Functioning for children.</li>
<li>Long-Term care needs among children.</li>
<li>Quality for cognitively impaired.</li>
<li>Quality for informal care.</li>
<li>Projections of long-term care needs.</li></ul></td>
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