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Nursing Home Selection: How Do Consumers Choose? Volume I: Findings from Focus Groups of Consumers and Information Intermediaries

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The goal of this report is to present a review of a subset of the Internet sites that may be used to inform a consumer's selection of a nursing facility. As part of this content review, the authors reviewed 29 websites; 13 websites were national in scope and 16 were state specific. The following states were considered in our search for and review of websites: California, Iowa, Florida, Ohio, Virginia and Maryland. [187 PDF pages]