TY - JOUR AU - Estabrooks, Carole A. AU - Morgan, Debra G. AU - Squires, Janet E. AU - Boström, Anne-Marie AU - Slaughter, Susan E. AU - Cummings, Greta G. AU - Norton, Peter G. PY - 2011 DA - 2011/04/14 TI - The care unit in nursing home research: Evidence in support of a definition JO - BMC Medical Research Methodology SP - 46 VL - 11 IS - 1 AB - Defining what constitutes a resident care unit in nursing home research is both a conceptual and practical challenge. The aim of this paper is to provide evidence in support of a definition of care unit in nursing homes by demonstrating: (1) its feasibility for use in data collection, (2) the acceptability of aggregating individual responses to the unit level, and (3) the benefit of including unit level data in explanatory models. SN - 1471-2288 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-11-46 DO - 10.1186/1471-2288-11-46 ID - Estabrooks2011 ER -