Quality of care in German nursing homes

There are no internationally standardized criteria for measuring quality of care. In Germany quality assessments of nursing homes have been performed since 2009. The results are published directly after the assessment which is comparable to the “Nursing Home Compare” program in the USA. The aim of this study was to examine the evolution of trends in the quality criteria within a period of two quality assessments in a nursing home. Evaluations were conducted on two evaluation dates with an interval of 2 years in between and the evaluation results from 2009 to 2013 available online were analyzed. The study include…