National nursing home survey, 1985
By: principal investigator, United States Department of Health and Human Services, National Center for Health Statistics
Edition: 1st ICPSR ed.
Series: ICPSR -- 8914; ICPSR (Series) -- 8914
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Format: computer file /
Subjects: Nursing homes; Statistics; Software; Long-term care facilities
Description: Inlcudes data on nursing and related care facilities, the services provided, the residents, discharges and staff. Care is examined from both the perspective of the recipient and the provider of services. Information about patients includes basic demographic characteristics, health status, services received, and, for discharges, the outcome of care. Facility-level data include size, ownership, Medicare/Medicaid certification, occupancy rate, and days of care provided.
Notes: Description based on: documentation.

Accompanied by one supplemental codebook file and seven SPSS job control card files.

"The ICD-9-CM codes in the Current Resident Questionnaire (Dataset 3) and the Discharged Resident Questionnaire (Dataset 4) have been modified slightly ... If researchers need the original codes as provided by the principal investigators, they should use the data found in Datasets 9 and 10, respectively"--Tape information form, p. 5.

"The Expense Questionnaire file and the Next-of-Kin Questionnaire file will be made available by NCHS at a later date"--Documentation, p. XII.

Data collected: August 1985 to January 1986.

United States.

System requirements: at least an IBM 370 or equivalent mainframe.

Part 1. 263 variable -- part 2. 168 variables -- part 3. 378 variables -- part 4. 250 variables -- part 6. 11 variables -- part 7. 11 variables -- part 8. 17 variables -- part 9. [378 variables?] -- part 10. [250 variables?]
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Facility questionnaire (1078 cases); title: part 2. Nursing staff questionnaire (2760 cases); title: part 3. Current resident questionnaire (5238 cases); title: part 4. Discharged resident questionnaire (6017 cases); title: part 6. Nursing staff sampling list (999 cases); title: part 7. Current resident sampling list (1059 cases); title: part 8. Discharged resident sampling list (1030 cases); title: part 9. Current resident questionnaire [original] (5238 cases); title: part 10. Discharged resident questionnaire [original] (6017 cases).