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- Title
WHAT FACTORS INFLUENCE COMPLIANCE WITH HEALTH AND DISABILITY SERVICE STANDARDS FOR AGED RESIDENTIAL CARE IN NEW ZEALAND?
- Authors
Weststrate, Jan; Cummings, Cathy; Boamponsem, Louis; Towers, Andy
- Abstract
Aims: To identify compliance with the New Zealand Government's health and disability services standards (HDSS) in aged residential care (ARC) facilities in 2016, compared with previous years' outcomes, and its relationship with the surge of complaints in the public domain. Methods: The 2016 audit reports of 185 ARC facilities were compared with their previous audit reports. The level of attainment of the different service groups was quantified (5: continuous improvement - 1: unattained). Results: Audit reports of 185 facilities were included for analysis. Overall, the compliance with the standards improved from an average of 3.59 (± 0.80) to 3.76 (± 0.71). All service groups improved significantly over time, except for organisation and management. Number of beds and audit agency had no significant influence on the outcomes. Conclusions: Compliance with the HDSS of the ARC facilities audited in 2016 significantly increased from their previous audit. There appears to be a discrepancy between the outcome of this study and the perception of the public; however this study could not draw conclusions whether this discrepancy is directly related to an increase in poor performance. The question emerges whether the current standards reflect sufficiently the provision of good quality of care.
- Subjects
NEW Zealand; ELDER care; AUDITING; CHI-squared test; LEGAL compliance; MEDICAL care for people with disabilities; MEDICAL care; MEDICAL quality control; HEALTH outcome assessment; PROFESSIONS; STATISTICS; T-test (Statistics); CERTIFICATION; DATA analysis; SECONDARY analysis; STATISTICAL significance; RESIDENTIAL care; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; ONE-way analysis of variance
- Publication
Kaitiaki Nursing Research, 2019, Vol 10, Issue 1, p47
- ISSN
1179-772X
- Publication type
Article