Can Electronic Tools Help Improve Nursing Home Quality?

Table 1

Characteristics of the 7 nursing homes in the city of Bergen, Norway, participating (𝑁=513 long-term patients).

Nursing home	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	Total	𝑃
N:	83	77	39	85	82	101	46	513
No. of places, total/long/short	108/88/20	84/63/21	66/31/35	90/90/0	107/81/26	131/99/32	64/48/16	650/500/150
Location in city	Suburb	Inner city	Suburb	Suburb	Inner city	Suburb	Suburb
Doctors’ hours per place per week	0.4	0.3	0.5	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.4
Men, %	33.7	33.8	28.2	26.7	21.0	37.6	30.4	30.2	0.273^1
Age, years
Mean	86.7	85.2	84.7	84.9	88.2	79.6	82.2	84.4	<0.001^2
Standard deviation	7.6	10.7	7.5	9.1	6.8	15.7	10.0
Length of stay, days
Mean	990.0	901.5	973.1	946.1	1,728.9	1,383.1	1,055.2	1,171.5	<0.001^2
Standard deviation	1102.9	1038.9	747.8	849.6	1075.2	1299.9	873.43
Nondemented 𝑛=511, %	20.7	31.6	0.0	29.4	41.5	20.8	19.6	23.4	<0.001^1
Deviation %	−2.7	8.2	−23.4	6.0	18.1	−2.6	−3.8
Suffered stroke 𝑛=462, %	32.4	10.2	28.2	35.4	21.5	30.0	15.4	24.7	0.009^1
Deviation %	7.7	−14.5	3.5	10.7	−3.2	5.3	−9.3

¹Pearson’ chi-square test; ²Kruskal-Wallis test.