Table 3.

Characteristics Predicting Prevalence of Daily Care Teams in Nursing Homes: Linear Regression Model With Robust Standard Errors and Probability Weights^a

Predictor variables	Parameter coefficient	Standardized coefficientb	p Valuec
Intercept	2.677	—	.796
Management practices (H1a–b)
Management style (custodial/autocratic = reference category)
Collegial	−1.715	−0.111	.157
Supportive	−1.795	−0.102	.245
Managers view teamwork as very important with regard to
Residents’ quality of life	−1.488	−0.076	.459
Clinical quality of care	3.302	0.166	.080
Staff turnover and retention	1.027	0.065	.402
Staff–residents relationship	−1.420	−0.085	.389
NHAs reporting formal daily care teams	−0.188	−0.012	.892
DONs reporting formal daily care teams	2.601	0.159	.072
Job design (H2a–b)
% direct care staff with primary assignment	−8.276	−0.200	.100
% direct care staff on other than daily teams	25.014	0.412	<.001
Characteristics of nursing home managers (H3a–b)
Turnover—DON	0.034	0.004	.952
Tenure—DON (months)	0.008	0.083	.171
Turnover—NHA	0.859	0.082	.280
Tenure—NHA (months)	0.004	0.060	.422
Facility characteristics (H4a–b)
Not-for-profit facility (profit = reference category)	0.095	0.006	.930
Total nursing hours per resident per day	1.946	0.317	.012

Notes: NHA = nursing home administrator; DON = director of nursing. Model: N = 149, R² = .4703.

^aProbability weights corrected for sampling response bias.

^bParameter coefficients were standardized by subtracting the mean and dividing by standard deviation.

^cp values <.1 are bolded.