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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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Research
In the area below you will find a list of our most recently added research articles.
Journal of Gerontological Nursing
Our team has developed a technological innovation that detects changes in health
status that indicate impending acute illness or exacerbation of chronic illness before usual assessment methods or self-reports of illness. We successfully used this information in a 1-year prospective study to alert health care providers so they could readily assess the situation and init...
Journal of Gerontological Nursing
It is becoming increasingly common for nursing facilities to use Quality Indicators (QI) derived from Minimum Data Set (MDS) data for quality improvement initiatives within their facilities. It is not known how much support facilities need to effectively review QI reports, investigate problem areas, and implement practice changes to improve care. In Missouri, the University...
Journal of Nursing Measurement
The primary aim of this NINR-NIH-funded field test in 407 nursing homes in 3 states was to complete the development of and conduct psychometric testing for the Observable Indicators of Nursing Home Care Quality Instrument (Observable Indicators, OIQ). The development of the OIQ was based on extensive qualitative and iterative quantitative work that described nursing home car...
Journal of Nursing Care Quality
Over the past 12 years, members of the Minimum Data Set (MDS) and Quality Research Team at the University of Missouri-Columbia have been working with the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services to improve care in Missouri nursing homes. The team conducted initial qualitative studies that explored the multidimensional aspects of quality of nursing home care. Using g...
Journal of Nursing Measurement
The primary aim of this NINR-NIH–funded field test in 407 nursing homes in 3 states was to complete the development of and conduct psychometric testing for the Observable Indicators of Nursing Home Care Quality Instrument (Observable Indicators, OIQ). The development of the OIQ was based on extensive qualitative and iterative quantitative work that described nursing home car...
Proceedings of the International Society for Gerontechnology and International Symposium for Automation and Robotics in Construction Conference
The purpose of the study is to investigate whether motion density maps based on passive infrared (PIR) motion sensors and the dis-similarity measure of the density maps, along with relative energy expenditure estimates derived from motion density are sensitive enough to detect changes in mental health over time.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Proceedings from the 10th Annual International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics
We present an example of unobtrusive, continuous monitoring in the
home for the purpose of assessing early health changes. Sensors embedded in
the environment capture activity patterns. Changes in the activity patterns are
detected as potential signs of changing health. A simple alert algorithm has
been implemented to generate health alerts to clinici...
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
A randomized, two-group, repeated-measures design was used to test a two year intervention for improving quality of care and resident outcomes in facilities in “need of improvement”. Intervention group (n=29) received an experimental multilevel intervention designed to help them: 1) use quality-improvement methods, 2) use team and group process for direct-care decision-makin...