Table 4.

The Impact of Nursing Home Compare on Logarithm of Share of Residents, Conditional on Quality Measure at Baseline: Includes Only Those Facilities with below Median Occupancy at Baseline

Quality Indicator	Coefficient	SE	N
Bottom quartile quality (high values of the indicator)
Urinary tract infection	0.004	0.009	34,851
Activities of daily living loss	0.023**	0.010	34,142
Physical restraints	−0.005	0.009	34,857
Ulcers, high risk	0.004	0.009	34,235
Ulcers, low risk	0.010	0.009	33,818
Top quartile quality (low values of the indicator)
Urinary tract infection	0.018*	0.011	34,851
Activities of daily living loss	−0.002	0.009	34,142
Physical restraints	0.015	0.010	34,857
Ulcers, high risk	0.018	0.012	34,235
Ulcers, low risk	0.022**	0.009	33,818

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.