Measuring Nursing Home Quality of Life: Validated Measures Are Poorly Correlated With Proxies From MDS and Quality of Life Deficiency Citationsl

Ensuring quality of life (QoL) is an important goal of person-centered nursing home care. The provision of person-centered care relies on information captured in the Minimum Data Set 3.0 (MDS). It is unclear to what extent MDS items or QoL-related facility deficiency citations correlate with validated measures of nursing home residents' QoL. This study evaluated correlation among MDS items, facility deficiency citations, and residents’ QoL from 2 states that currently collect these measures.