医学
老年学
医疗保健
人口
质量(理念)
尊严
政府(语言学)
老年护理
家庭医学
人口学
环境卫生
哲学
认识论
语言学
社会学
政治学
法学
经济
经济增长
作者
Song Jia,Gang Chen,Jyoti Khadka,Rachel Milte,Julie Ratcliffe
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117054
摘要
The Quality of Care Experience Aged Care Consumers (QCE-ACC) is a new preference-based instrument recently adopted by the Australian government nationally as a new quality indicator for aged care. This study employed a discrete choice experiment (DCE) approach to develop an aged care user-specific value set for the QCE-ACC instrument. This is crucial for establishing the relative importance of key QCE-ACC dimensions for informing quality assessment and economic evaluation in aged care. We further empirically compared the preferences of aged care recipients and non-aged care recipients amongst the older Australian population (65 years and above) for quality of care experience using the QCE-ACC. A total of 201 older people (age 74.2 ± 6.2; 59.7% female) receiving aged care services completed the DCE survey between August and September 2022. The comparison of relative importance indicated some divergence in the preferences between the aged care recipients and non-aged care recipients. Amongst aged care recipients, being treated with "Respect & Dignity" was the most important quality of care experience defining dimension, with "Health & Wellbeing" ranked second and "Skills & Training" (of staff) ranked third. However, within non-aged care recipients, "Skills Training" (of staff) was considered the most important quality of care dimension. Distinction in the QCE-ACC utility weights distributions and mean values were also observed, suggesting that aged care recipients may have different opinions about the quality of aged care compared to those who have not accessed aged care services. The findings shed light on the unique preferences of aged care recipients, indicating that aged care recipients and non-aged care recipients' preferences for quality of aged care are not interchangeable. The value set developed in this study is specifically tailored for assessing the quality of aged care using the QCE-ACC instrument from the perspective of aged care users in Australia.
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