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The Quality Improvement Program for Missouri's Long - Term Care Facilities (QIPMO) is committed to Missouri's Elderly.
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The "Aging-in-place" model allows older adults to receive health care in their preferred place of living, eliminating the need for a more restricted living space, such as a nursing home.
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TigerPlace is a specially designed elder housing project initiated by the MU Sinclair School of Nursing, working to provide elders a better quality of life.
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MDS Analysis
The MU MDS and Quality Research Team, which began work in 1993, is an interdisciplinary group committed to conducting research that will help nursing homes in Missouri deliver high quality services to its residents. The team specifically focuses on the use of the MDS data for quality improvement and monitoring resident outcomes of care. The MDS team has made extensive use of information contained in Minimum Data Set (MDS) assessment forms to improve resident care. The MDS data provides a wealth of information about each resident’s needs and outcomes of care can also be interpreted from the data.
MDS Analysis Articles
The Gerontologist
Purpose: The purpose of this research is two-fold: (1) to utilize a new methodology (Bayesian networks) for aggregating various quality indicators to measure the overall quality of care in nursing homes and (2) to provide new insight into the relationships that exist among various measures of quality and how such measures affect the overall quality of nursin...
Journal of Advanced Nursing
Aim. This paper is a report of a study to examine the relationship between health-related admission factors and post-hospital physical function at 3, 6, 9 and 12 months in older adult nursing facility residents.
Background. Physical functional decline is a significant health problem for older adults and has far-reaching effects. In pa...
Geriatric Nursing
Nearly everyone has some life experiences or opinions based on media about nursing homes and the need for quality improvement. States and federal agencies spend enormous amounts of time regulating and surveying nursing homes, but quality problems persist. In the past decade, federal initiatives have emphasized quality improvement, and researchers have tested a variety of way...
Journal of Nursing Care Quality
he authors report on a NIH multilevel intervention study (n=58; 29 intervention, 29 control) performed in a Midwestern state over a 2 year time frame. Complexity science was the theoretical model used to analyze the observations made by research nurses who visited intervention nursing homes once a month, working with nursing home staff to improve their clinical outcomes usin...
BMC Research Notes
Background: Accurate prognosis is vital to the initiation of advance care planning particularly in a vulnerable, at risk population such as care home residents. The aim of this paper is to report on the revision and simplification of the MDS Mortality Rating Index (MMRI) for use in clinical practice to predict the probability of death in six months for...
Journals of Gerontological Nursing
Pain management for older adults residing in nursing homes continues to present multifaceted challenges to health care practitioners and researchers. This study, which focuses on improvement in pain assessment and management, is a secondary analysis of data from a larger study, which used an intervention simultaneously directed at all levels of staff with change in qua...
All Research Grants
List all Research & Projects Grants
Project Title: Quality Improvement Program for Missouri
Summary: The major goal of this project is to design and evaluate the effectiveness of a quality improvement program for Missouri nu...
Principal Investigator:
Marilyn Rantz
Dates of Project Period: 7/1/99-6/30/13
Total Amount: $7,835,307
Project Title: Nursing Home Quality Improvement Consulting Services
Summary: The major goal of this project is to design and evaluate the effectiveness of a quality improvement program for Missouri nu...
Principal Investigator:
Marilyn Rantz
Dates of Project Period: 11/1/02-7/31/11
Total Amount: $1,027,928
Project Title: Multilevel Interventions to Improve Nursing Home Outcomes
Summary: In this study, we seek to improve the outcomes of residents by transforming poorly performing nursing home staffs into good...
Principal Investigator:
Marilyn Rantz
Dates of Project Period: 5/1/05-2/28/11
Total Amount: $2,888,334
Project Title: Care Coordination for Older Adults: Process, Outcomes, Cost
Summary: This study informs research and clinical practice by identifying actual care coordination intervention activities and dose,...
Principal Investigator:
Lori Popejoy
Dates of Project Period: 8/17/11-7/31/13
Total Amount: $450,661
Project Title: Evaluation of the Use of Bedside Technology to Improve Quality of Care in Nursing Facilities
Principal Investigator:
Marilyn Rantz
Dates of Project Period: 1/1/03-9/30/06
Total Amount: $370,000
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