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Jun 27, 2024

Differences in Care Provided in Urban and Rural Nursing Homes in the United States: Literature Review

Limited evidence supported that rural nursing homes (NHs), compared to urban NHs, provided sparse mental health support and limited access to hospice care after controlling for facility and resident characteristics.
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Sep 18, 2023

Changes Over Time in POLST Use and Content by Race and Ethnicity Among California Nursing Home Residents

Racial and ethnic differences in POLST intensity of care orders increased between 2011 and 2016 suggesting that efforts to mitigate factors underlying differences were ineffective.
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Aug 28, 2023

Relationship of POLST to Hospitalization and ICU Care Among Nursing Home Residents in California

This paper links Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST) document status with actual intensity of care for nursing home residents in California.
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Jul 26, 2023

Using Pulse Oximeters in Care Homes for Residents with COVID-19 and Other Conditions: A Rapid Mixed-Methods Evaluation

Through a rapid mixed-methods evaluation of care homes in England, this article explores whether use of pulse oximeters in care homes during the COVID-19 pandemic was beneficial to care home staff and residents.
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Jul 11, 2023

Changes in Nursing Home Use Following Medicaid-Supported Expanded Access to Home- and Community-Based Services for Older Adults With Dementia

New York State's Medicaid managed long-term care (MLTC) program expanded access to home- and community-based services. This cohort study evaluated changes in nursing home use among older adults with dementia following MLTC implementation.
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Jun 26, 2023

Home and Community-Based Services: Veterans' Issues in Focus

As VA expands its home and community-based services for aging veterans and those living with disabilities, it is important to ensure that these services meet the needs of veterans and caregivers and are available to all veterans who would benefit.
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Apr 11, 2023

Does Integration of Palliative Care and Infection Management Reduce Hospital Transfers Among Nursing Home Residents?

We evaluated integration of palliative care and infection management (i.e. merging the goals of palliative care and infection management at end of life) in nursing homes and its association with hospital transfers for residents with advanced illness.
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Nov 9, 2022

Infection Control in Long-Term Care: Decisionmaking Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted a need to transform the decisionmaking culture in long-term care to make it more inclusive of residents, staff, and others who are affected by infection-control policies in these facilities.
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Oct 20, 2022

Policy Decisionmaking in Long-Term Care: Lessons from Infection Control During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Policies to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in long-term care facilities have failed to balance community safety and resident well-being. Input from a range of stakeholders highlighted a need for inclusive policy decisionmaking in long-term care.
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Mar 16, 2022

POLST Completion and Continuity in California Nursing Homes

We used MDS 2011–2016 linked to California Section S to describe POLST completion, cardiopulmonary resuscitation and do not resuscitate orders, invalid POLST documents, and switches in POLST content across the population of California NH residents.
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Mar 16, 2022

Care Preferences in Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment in California Nursing Homes

Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) facilitates documentation and transition of patients' life-sustaining treatment orders across care settings. We describe the orders within POLST among all nursing home residents in California from 2011 to 2016.
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Feb 8, 2022

Organizational and Geographic Nursing Home Characteristics Associated With Increasing Prevalence of Resident Obesity in the United States

The objective of this study was to examine the associations between nursing home obesity prevalence rate and nursing home organizational, staffing, resident, and geographic factors within a profit maximization framework.

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