Dr. Temkin-Greener's research is focused in the following areas: 1) Quality of care - developing outcome measures and assessing quality of care in community-based, hospital and long-term care settings; 2) Organizational performance - developing and validating measures of care process, teamwork, and patient safety culture; 3) Aging and Long-term Care - assessing the impact of individual and organizational risk factors on quality of care for vulnerable elderly, including disparities; 4) Palliative and end-of-life care - design, implementation and evaluation of interventions to improve care; 5) Mental illness - understanding access to and quality of care for patients with dementia and other mental health disorders.
