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The study includes nursing homes from 18 states that received NBCP grants as treatment group and nursing homes from 24 states that did not receive NBCP grants as control group. We exclude eight pilot NBCP states.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Data Sources and Analytic Sample<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We used facility\u2010level deficiency data from NH Care Compare (CC), NH characteristics data from Certification and Survey Provider Enhanced Reports (CASPER), and Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias diagnosis data from Minimum Data Set (MDS) assessments, covering 96,261 nursing home\u2010year observations.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Principal Findings<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Overall, NBCP implementation was associated with a significant reduction in health deficiencies (\u22120.760,\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009&lt;\u20090.01) and a decrease in the probability and number of citations for abuse, neglect, and exploitation (\u22120.029,\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009&lt;\u20090.01; \u22120.048,\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009&lt;\u20090.01). Subgroup analyses showed that NBCP was associated with reductions in health deficiencies in nursing homes, regardless of whether they had a high or low census of residents with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias, and in both metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas. However, the effects varied across states depending on when they adopted NBCP.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Our findings suggest that NBCP is an effective regulatory tool for improving nursing home deficiencies and reducing incidents of abuse\u2010related violations. We need more research to assess if background check programs improve nursing home quality using resident\u2010level outcomes.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1111\/1475-6773.70108","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,3,31]],"date-time":"2026-03-31T01:43:32Z","timestamp":1774921412000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Evaluating the Effect of National Background Check Program on Nursing Home Deficiency Citations"],"prefix":"10.1111","volume":"61","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0000-8109-5205","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Junjie","family":"Gai","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Health Management and Policy, College of Public Health The University of Iowa  Iowa City Iowa 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