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B -- CONSULTATION IN ANALYSIS OF LONG TERM CARE SURVEY PILOT TEST AND USE OF QUALITY INDICATORS IN DEVELOPMENT OF A NATIONAL RESIDEDNT ASSESSMENT DATA BASE POC Tom Snyder, Contract Specialist (410) 786-0185, Brian Hebbel, Contracting Officer. A modification to Contract No 500-94-0075, University of Wisconsin-Madison, to increase level of effort in certain tasks as follows: use of more expert personnel in completing field studies already planned to assess optimum survey resources utilization, provide follow-up analysis on the implementation of the revised survey process developed in conjunction with this contract, increase the resource utilization for field work to analyze the relationship between multistate quality indicators and staffing patterns. The contractor will also be responsible for providing consultants on issues related to the development of national MDS data by states to generate quality indicators. The contractor will be responsible for establishing a mechanism to electronically distribute MDS data specifications as well as respond to highly technical questions from the nursing home industry and third party vendors. The contractor will also continue efforts to design and develop a data management system and software for State use in conducting quality indicator analyses. A SOLICITATION IS NOT AVAILABLE. See nunberes Note(s): 22. (0211)

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