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Improving the Quality of Health Care for Older Adults

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By: Joshua Chodosh, David Solomon, Carol P. Roth, John T. Chang, Catherine MacLean, Bruce Ferrell, Paul G. Shekelle, Neil S. Wenger, David A. Ganz, Caren Kamberg, Takahiro Higashi, Lillian Min, David Reuben, Roy Young, Debra Saliba, John Schnelle, Eric L. Knight, Jerry Avorn, Laurence Rubenstein, N. Gnanadesigan, John L. Adams, Rick L. Smith, Constance Fung, Martin Roland, Elizabeth A. McGlynn, David Reeves, Steven M. Asch, Eve A. Kerr, Richard K. Besdine, Alpesh Amin, Dan G. Blazer, Terry Fulmer, Mark Grunwald, William J. Hall, Paul R. Katz, Dalane W. Kitzman, Rosanne M. Leipzig, D. S. Zingmond, K. H. Wilber, Patricia A. Ganz, Harvey Cohen, Ronnie A. Rosenthal

This research brief summarizes the results of Assessing Care of Vulnerable Elderly (ACOVE)-2, which measured the quality of care delivered to a group of older adults, and describes a recent revision of the quality measures, known as ACOVE-3.

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