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This paper addresses a fundamental issue relating to the nature, quality and quantity of resident care inputs: what impacts of SCUs are associated with added service inputs, and thus with personnel costs, recognizing that personnel account for the majority of costs associated with nursing home care?<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Aims of the study<\/jats:bold>: The aim of this aspect of the study was to determine the extent to which additions of staff would result in a diminution of deviant behaviors among residents of special care and of traditional care units.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Method<\/jats:bold>: The data were collected from a random sample of ten downstate nursing homes located in New York State. Using rigorous sampling procedures, random samples of 40 residents were drawn from each of the facilities, equally divided between special care unit and traditional care unit residents. Thus, the sampling design involved two levels of clustering: subjects were clustered within units and units were clustered within facilities. The observational behaviour measure was taken from the INCARE (institutional version of the Comprehensive Assessment and Referral Evaluation). The behavioral observation measure contains 23 items such as \u2018disruptive of others\u2019, \u2018picks\/pulls clothing\u2019, \u2018repetitive movements\u2019, \u2018repetitive questioning\u2019 and \u2018wandering\u2019. Each item is rated as to frequency of occurrence; ratings are collected on three occasions, and averaged. Outcome and covariate data (e.g., behavior and cognition) were collected by trained research staff who visited each site for three to four weeks of intensive data collection, accomplished through direct resident interviews, staff interviews and questionnaires and chart data abstraction. The clinical staff <jats:italic>time<\/jats:italic> data were collected using the InfoAide system, whereby each care provider used a portable barcode scanner to record the type of care given, the recipient and the duration of care.<\/jats:p><jats:p>A random effects model using the SAS mixed procedure was applied to the data; adhering to this model, some effects were fixed and some random. The random effects were comprised of the subject (intercept or subject starting point at baseline) and the unit; used here was restricted maximum likelihood (REML) with the EM algorithm.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Results<\/jats:bold>: There was a significant reduction of behavior disorder associated with more provision of aide time in SCUs as contrasted with non\u2010SCUs. The greater the service provided, the greater the slope, i.e., the greater the reduction. That is, while SCU residents showed improvements in behavior accompanying increases in aide time, no such change was observed among non\u2010SCU residents.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Implications for Health Care Provision and Use<\/jats:bold>: The significant effect of SCU \u00d7 time \u00d7 aide\u2010minutes indicates that more aide time on SCUs was associated with improvement in behavior. It appears that the important ingredient in relation to the reduction of behavior disorder is not membership in an SCU <jats:italic>per se<\/jats:italic>, but the provision of more aide time within SCUs. Those SCUs that provide more aide time have a better behavior outcome. Thus, these findings point to additional paths for exploration, i.e., future research needs to focus on elements of SCUs such as the available amounts of program and staff resources rather than on SCU status alone. \u00a9 2000 John Wiley &amp; Sons, Ltd.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1002\/mhp.87","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2002,8,25]],"date-time":"2002-08-25T20:13:04Z","timestamp":1030306384000},"page":"121-127","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["Service inputs and costs of care related to outcomes among cognitively impaired nursing home residents"],"prefix":"10.1002","volume":"3","author":[{"given":"Douglas","family":"Holmes","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jeanne","family":"Teresi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jian","family":"Kong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2001,4,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_1_2_2","unstructured":"NCHS.Use of nursing homes by the elderly: preliminary data from the 1997 National Nursing Home Survey.NCHS Advanced DataNo. 312. 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