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This study seeks to find out the factors that contribute to nursing home performance in the State of Indiana by utilizing nursing home administrators' self-evaluation of his/her facilities. Following the Donabedian Model, which is often adopted in quality assessment research, the survey questionnaire...
Design Mailed survey. Setting All licensed Connecticut nursing homes. Participants Directors of Nursing (DONs). Measurements Survey eliciting pain management demographics, perceived resources, and perceived barriers to adequately manage pain in respondents’ nursing home. Results A total of 113 of 260 ...
A minority of elderly nursing home patients with pneumonia are able to cough or produce a purulent sputum sample, and physical signs of con- solidation are infrequently found on examination (Bentley, 1984; Marrie et al., 1985). However, con- fusion, lethargy, or an altered mental state are...
OBJECTIVES: To test the effect of changes in Medicaid reimbursement on clinical outcomes of long-stay nursing home (NH) residents.DESIGN: Longitudinal, retrospective study of NHs, merging aggregated resident-level quality measures with facility characteristics and state policy survey data.SETTING: All ...
We examine whether the Nursing Home Reform Act (NHRA) improved nursing home staffing and quality.Data from 5,092 nursing homes were linked across the 1987 Medicare/Medicaid Automated Certification System and the 1993 Online Survey, Certification and Reporting system. A dummy-year model was used to...
A cross sectional survey design was used in this study. The feedback reports were developed in collaboration with participating facility administrators. FARs presented results in four contextual areas: workplace culture, feedback processes, job satisfaction, and staff burnout. Six weeks after FARs were...
State survey agencies collect and investigate consumer complaints for care in nursing homes and other health care settings. Complaint investigations play a... DG Stevenson - 《Medical Care》 被引量: 46发表: 2005年 A New Care Paradigm Slashes Hospital Use And Nursing Home Stays For The Elderly ...
Prevalence of atrial fibrillation in US nursing homes: results from the National Nursing Home Survey, 1985-2004. Reardon G; Nelson W W; Patel A A;.Prevalence of atrial fibrillation in US nursing homes: results from the National Nursing Home Survey, 1985-2004.J ... Gregory,Reardon,Winnie,....
Survey tool. The survey tool is a revision of one of the most wide ly used tools to assess the clinical nursing environment, the Nursing Work Index (NWI) (Kramer & Hafner, 1989). The NWI consists of 65 items on a 4-point Likert- type scale ranging from 1 (strongly agree) to 4 ...