AIPCA La Trobe

Due to their frailty, older people living in nursing homes are at risk of harm if the care provided is not evidence-based and high quality. The performance measures routinely collected to measure quality care in public sector nursing homes in Victoria, Australia, are currently acute care focused and collected ‘after the fact’, so there is a need for predictive performance measures that identify circumstances that reflect poor-quality care that will cause harm to residents.