Studies:

Incident Reporting Questionnaire for Nursing Home Administrators

CMS Direct Service Workforce Demonstration Evaluation

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Incident Reporting Questionnaire for Nursing Home Administrators

The purpose of the research is to examine the practices and policies of adverse event reporting in nursing home settings.  In addition, we will examine the types of information technology used to collect incident report data and analyze the information.  The surveys at the bottom of the page can be completed either on the computer or by hand.  The first version can be completed in Microsoft Word and sent to the address listed below or emailed to Kevin Hughes at kmh55@pitt.edu.  The second version can be printed, completed by hand and sent to the address listed below.

Interactive Survey (Incident_Reporting_Survey_NHA Jan 24 20081(interactive))

Printable Survey (Incident_Reporting_Survey_NHA Jan 24 20081)

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CMS Direct Service Workforce Demonstration Evaluation

The following surveys will be used in a national evaluation of the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) funded direct service community workforce demonstrations. This evaluation is being conducted through a collaboration between the RAND Corporation and the University of Pittsburgh.

This evaluation is designed to understand the impact of the CMS funded demonstrations designed to recruit and retain Direct Service Workers. We are writing to ask you to participate by completing the appropriate questionnaire.

Since we are attempting to complete this evaluation immediately, we would like to compensate those that complete agency surveys by July 18, 2008 with a $50 Wal-Mart gift card. Also, we would like to send a $10 Wal-Mart gift card to any Direct Service Workers that can complete their respective survey by the same date.

Please notify your workers that they will receive a $10 Wal-Mart gift card if they return their completed survey to the address listed below or they may email their surveys to kmh55@pitt.edu. All surveys can be easily completed in Microsoft Word by clicking on checkboxes and gray boxes for short-answer questions.

If your agency participated in CMS demonstrations, the following surveys are for your agency and direct service workers (DSW). (Click on the hyperlink to access a copy of the survey in Microsoft Word) Also, if you think any of your consumers would be interested in completing a brief survey, please let us know and we will send surveys and business reply envelopes.

Agency Survey (agency.intervention(interactive))
Direct Service Worker (DSW) (DirectCareWorker.intervention(interactive))

If your agency completed an agency survey as a part of the control group, the survey for Direct Service Workers can be found below.

Direct Service Worker (Control Group) (DirectCareWorker.control(interactive))

Nick Castle, PhD
University of Pittsburgh
Graduate School of Public Health
Department of Health Policy & Management
A610 Crabtree Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15261

Phone: 412-624-3876
Fax: 412-624-3146