Dr. Arling conducts applied research to improve the effectiveness of health and long-term care for older people. He applies statistical models to issues such as quality assessment, nursing resource use, organizational performance, and transitions between care settings. Dr. Arling’s research interests are in health care quality assessment, evaluation, and policy analysis.Much of his research has been with elderly populations in long-term care settings where he has helped develop comprehensive measures of care quality, assessed the accuracy and effectiveness of these measures, and applied them to quality improvement, public reporting and pay-for-performance.
