PLoS Medicine (Apr 2016)

Observational Evidence of For-Profit Delivery and Inferior Nursing Home Care: When Is There Enough Evidence for Policy Change?

  • Lisa A Ronald,
  • Margaret J McGregor,
  • Charlene Harrington,
  • Allyson Pollock,
  • Joel Lexchin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001995
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 4
p. e1001995

Abstract

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Margaret McGregor and colleagues consider Bradford Hill's framework for examining causation in observational research for the association between nursing home care quality and for-profit ownership.