Morris, John N. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5867-0697
Berg, Katherine
Topinkova, Eva
Gray, Leonard C.
Schachter, Erez
Funding for this research was provided by:
interRAI and Profilitty (No Number)
Article History
Received: 20 April 2017
Accepted: 22 June 2018
First Online: 11 July 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The secondary MDS 3.0 data for residents in US nursing homes were provided pursuant to an agreement with CMS in the United States. The data were anonymized before coming to the analytic team. The analyses are covered by an approval from the Hebrew Senior Life, Institute for Aging Research, Institutional Review Board, and the analyses were completed using SPSS version 20 and 22. As the data analysed in this paper were provided by CMS pursuant to a specific request by our research team they are not publicaly available thrugh us for analysis by others. Others can, however, submit a request to CMS to access and analyze their MDS data holdings. CMS considers such requests on a case-by-case basis and will put appropriate restrictions on their use.
: No individual person level data or person level case reports are reported in this paper.
: JNM, KB, ET, and LG are members of interRAI.ES is a full-time salaried employee of Profility.
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