Home health care is very similar to a nursing home in that it can provide the same level of skilled nursing staff to provide services such as injections, health monitoring and care evaluations, wound care and intravenous or nutrition therapy but it allows the resident to remain at home. Unlike...
•Documentation of care in the medical record Medicare home health care criteria Criteria (to qualify for what?)•Patient must be homebound•Leaving home must require assistance and considerable effort•Patient must require intermittent skilled care ordered by the provider:- Nurse visits- ...
From November 2003 to June 2004, research nurses approached primary decision makers (residents or family members of residents who were deemed incapable of making informed decisions regarding their care) to participate in the qualitative study. Sampling and recruitment Inclusion and exclusion criteria for...
Data sources Medline, Embase, Web of Science, Cochrane, and Google Scholar from inception to 4 July 2024. Eligibility criteria for selecting studies Longitudinal studies on survival or nursing home admission in people with dementia. Studies with fewer than 150 participants, recruitment during acute ho...
a staffing comparison of VA and community nursing homes; cost comparisons among VA nursing home care units; development of criteria for judging the quality of care; contributions made by VA units to the nursing care standards at the local community level; and a suggested methodology for effecting...
[2,3]. Many definitions of QoC exist and most relate to the Institute of Medicine’s criteria stating that care needs to be safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient and equitable [4,5,6]. However, there has been a culture change from task-oriented to person-centered care, ...
The relationship of prior risk of nursing home entry among applicants for community-based long-term care (CB/LTC) services to cost-effective admission decisions is investigated using decision analytic techniques. It is shown that using such evaluation criteria as have predominated in the major CB/...
self-report questionnaires to 444 employees, interviews with and questionnaires to 13 nursing home directors and 40 ward managers, telephone interviews with 378 relatives and 900 hours of field observations. Separate multi-level analyses were conducted for quality of care assessed by relatives, staff ...
Our approach to nursing home selection and categorization into 4 strata based on intensity of care, first at the HHR level and then at the facility level within HRRs, was intended to better understand the relative association of regional and facility factors with variability in care for residents...
In the past decade, the number of long-term care (LTC) services for older adults in China has grown annually by an average of 10%. Older adults, their family members, and policymakers in China are concerned about patient outcomes in different care settin