Abstract
Surveys of consumers or their families and caregivers are an essential means of assessing quality in the delivery of home and community-based services (HCBS). A substantial number of such surveys have been fielded for the purpose either of measuring HCBS quality generally or of specific aspects of HCBS quality. Other surveys not developed for HCBS nevertheless measure concepts that are important in HCBS quality, such as life satisfaction or community participation. As the need for implementation of quality metrics in HCBS becomes ever more urgent, it is important to understand which quality-related concepts have been addressed in some form by existing surveys, and how well, and which concepts are generally lacking in relevant survey content.