Study issued on a community-based services.

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The Center for Health Services Research of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center has completed a study reviewing past and current research and providing recommendations on future research in two areas: the quality of community-based and custodial long-term care services, and the relationship between long-term care services and acute care expenditures. The study was conducted for the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) as part of HCFA Cooperative Agreement No. 17-C 98971/8-01, for the component entitled, "Research Sysnthesis and Recommendations on the Quality of Selected Long-Term Care Services and on the Relationship between Long-Term Care Services and Reduced Acute Care Expenditures."

The findings of the study are contained in a new publication, State Survey of Community-Based Services: Summary of Quality Assurance Mechanism in Sixteen States, by Judith A. Miller, Robert G. Berg, Kimberly J. Bischoff, and Robert E. Schlenker. It is available for $15 from the Center for Health Services Research, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, 1355 South Colorado Boulevard, Suite 706, Denver, Colorado 80222, (303) 756-8350.