Table 3.

The Impact of Nursing Home Compare on Logarithm of Share of Residents, Conditional on Quality Measure at Baseline

Quality Indicator	Coefficient	SE	N
Bottom quartile quality (high values of the indicator)
Urinary tract infection	−0.0001	0.004	84,655
Activities of daily living loss	0.009*	0.005	83,757
Physical restraints	−0.0001	0.005	84,654
Ulcers, high risk	0.006	0.005	83,667
Ulcers, low risk	0.003	0.005	83,332
Top quartile quality (low values of the indicator)
Urinary tract infection	0.007	0.006	84,655
Activities of daily living loss	0.002	0.005	83,757
Physical restraints	0.008	0.006	84,654
Ulcers, high risk	0.009	0.005	83,667
Ulcers, low risk	0.010**	0.005	83,332

Notes. The unit of analysis is the roughly annual OSCAR survey for the period 1999–2004. The coefficient of interest is the interaction of high/low MDS quality indicator at baseline with an indicator Nursing Home Quality Initiative in April or November of 2002 (depending on state). SEs are adjusted for correlation within markets. Analysis includes state specific trends to control for unobserved demographic changes.

^*Significant at the 10% level.

^**Significant at the 5% level.

MDS, Minimum Data Set; OSCAR, On-Line Survey, Certification, and Reporting.