Research Highlights: Developing Quality of Care Indicators for the Vulnerable Elderly. The ACOVE Project
Abstract
Far more people are surviving to old age than at any time in our history. Medical interventions can now prevent one many of the health problems traditionally associated with old age. Furthermore, the goal of medical care for the elderly has progressed beyond survival to maximizing quality of life, yet little attention has been paid to the overall quality of medical care that older people receive. In fact, exist ing measures of quality or health status are often inappropriate for the elderly. RAND Health has collaborated with Pfizer, Inc. to create the first quality-of-care assessment system for older persons. The goals of the Assessing Care of Vulnerable Elders (ACOVE) project were to define the population of vulnerable elderly, identify important medical conditions that affect this group, develop a set of evidence-based indicators of quality of care for this population, and design a tool to assess quality of care at the health system level.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2002
- Accession Number
- ADA400653
Entities
Organizations
- RAND Corporation