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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Geriatr Soc. 2018 Aug 10;66(9):1830–1837. doi: 10.1111/jgs.15476

Table 1 –

Baseline Skilled Nursing Facility Characteristics by INTERACT Use Groups

Low Use
Group
N = 34
Increased
Use Group
N = 65
High Use
Group
N = 101
SNFs with
Missing
Data1
N = 64
P-value
(Differences
Among the
Groups 1–3)
General Characteristics
Rural (%) 6% 20% 12% 13% 0.092
For-profit (%) 44% 66% 66% 58% 0.062
Non-profit (%) 56% 31% 33% 39% 0.037
Government (%) 0% 3% 1% 3% 0.222
Certified beds 128 (52) 142 (72) 137 (59) 140 (77) 0.555
Occupancy rate 0.91 (0.20) 0.89 (0.14) 0.86 (0.15) 0.89 (0.13) 0.202
Proportion of resident days
that were long-stay2
0.64 (0.14) 0.63 (0.15) 0.64 (0.13) 0.65 (0.13) 0.928
Staff hours per resident day
Certified nursing assistant
(CNA)
2.39 (0.53) 2.52 (0.67) 2.40 (0.56) 2.48 (0.47) 0.459
Licensed practical nurse
(LPN)
0.98 (0.34) 0.84 (0.36) 0.80 (0.32) 0.82 (0.31) 0.031
Registered nurse (RN) 0.86 (0.40) 0.76 (0.32) 0.80 (0.34) 0.78 (0.31) 0.441
Quality performance3
Overall quality of 4 or 5 68% 51% 61% 53% 0.213
Survey rating of 4 or 5 47% 25% 37% 47% 0.062
Quality rating of 4 or 5 82% 86% 89% 89% 0.616

Notes:

Data reported as percentages or means and standard deviations. N represents unique facilities. Robust standard errors are applied.

Definitions on INTERACT use groups are provided in Supplemental Appendix S1.

1

These facilities did not report data and use of Stop and Watch or SBAR at baseline or follow up.

2

Long-stay defined as the proportion of total 2012 resident days that are more than 100 days into a stay.

3

Quality performance measures come from 2012 Nursing Home COMPARE data.