Timeline for the measures of quality-of-care and litigation experience used in the analyses of nursing homes*
* The Figure shows temporal aspects of the variables used to estimate the effect of a nursing home’s claims experience during an “exposure” period on subsequent quality of care. MDS refers to the Minimum Data Set quality indicator/quality measure system. OSCAR refers to the to the Online Survey Certification and Reporting system. Q refers to quarters, the time interval used to construct the analytic dataset containing MDS measures. IP refers to inspection periods, the time interval used to construct the analytic dataset containing OSCAR measures.