Improving the outcomes of home care services in New York State: a national model

Home Healthc Nurse. 2008 Nov-Dec;26(10):614-22. doi: 10.1097/01.NHH.0000341225.33016.9a.

Abstract

Despite the rapid growth of Medicaid home care services, no uniform system for measuring and improving the quality of these services has been implemented on a large scale. The Personal and Skilled Care Outcomes (PESO) data set was developed to provide non-Medicare-certified home care agencies with a data set to support the systematic assessment and improvement of patient outcomes. This article describes the key features of the data set and outlines ways that a PESO-based outcome-based quality improvement process can be refined to accommodate the unique mix of services provided by home care agencies serving the Medicaid and private-pay populations.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Home Care Services / economics
  • Home Care Services / standards*
  • Humans
  • Licensure / standards*
  • Medicaid / standards*
  • Models, Nursing*
  • New York
  • Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care / methods*
  • Quality of Health Care*
  • United States