Nursing Homes

Journal Article

Incidence and Costs of Acute Medical Conditions in Long-Stay Incontinent Nursing Home Residents

Acute illness is very common among incontinent nursing home residents, and is generally diagnosed and treated at the nursing home site.

Journal Article

Nursing Home Reform Act.

Examines the organizational and aggregate resident characteristics of nursing homes associated with poor quality in the use of physical restraints.

Journal Article

Professional Association Membership by Nursing Facility Administrators and Quality of Care

The study suggests that these facilities do not do better because they have more resources or because they care for less-challenging residents.

Journal Article

Indicators of the Quality of Nursing Home Residential Care

Experts identified 19 specific care processes as valid and important measures of the quality of NH residential care.

Report

Quality Indicators for the Management of Urinary Incontinence in Vulnerable Community-Dwelling Elders

This paper describes incontinence quality indicators that can be applied to vulnerable community-dwelling elders who may be treated across the spectrum of care, from primary care physicians to surgical specialists.

Journal Article

Administrator Turnover and Quality of Care in Nursing Homes

In this article, the author examine the association between turnover of nursing home administrators and five important quality of care outcomes.

Journal Article

Alzheimer's Special Care Units and Top Management in Nursing Homes

The author discusses these results in terms of their significance of nursing homes and top management.

Journal Article

Deficiency Citations for Mental Health Care in Nursing Homes

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) certifies approximately 17,000 nursing homes per year.

Journal Article

Relocation of the Elderly

The author's model helps show some opportunities for future research in the relocation of the elderly.

Journal Article

The Roles of Government and Nonprofit Suppliers in Mixed Industries

Article examines evidence from two industries to determine whether government and nonprofit organization behavior differs in identifiable dimensions.

Journal Article

Appropriateness of the Decision to Transfer Nursing Facility Residents to the Hospital

Inappropriate transfers are a potentially large problem. Some inappropriate transfers may be associated with poor quality of care in SNFs.

Journal Article

Medical Care of the Nursing Home Resident: What Physicians Need to Know

Journal Article

Does What Nurses Do Affect Clinical Outcomes for Hospitalized Patients? A Review of the Literature

Some nursing care processes affect health-related patient outcomes, the full extent of nursing process-outcome links is relatively understudied.

Research Brief

Government Policy and the Cost and Quality of Nursing Homes

Increasing the rate of return on Medicaid patients would induce nursing homes to admit more Medicaid patients, but it would not induce them to increase quality.

Report

Family Structure and the Risk of Nursing Home Admission

Family structure and the risk of nursing home admission

Journal Article

Cost-effectiveness of Low-Air-Loss Beds for Treatment of Pressure Ulcers

Examines the cost-effectiveness of low-air-loss beds for the healing of pressure ulcers in nursing homes.

Journal Article

Quality of Life in Nursing Homes: An Emerging Focus of Research and Practice

This chapter outlines how the health professions conceptualize quality of life and apply it to frail elderly persons who reside in nursing homes.

Journal Article

Improving Primary Care in Nursing Homes

A cost analysis suggests that the use of NPs and PAs saves at least as much as it costs and may save additional money with more sustained use.

Report

Results from the evaluation of the Massachusetts Nursing Home Connection Program

This report evaluates the Nursing Home Connection, a demonstration project that tested the use of nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) to improve quality of care in nursing homes. The section on methods describes the matched sampl...

Journal Article

Effects of a Geriatric Nurse Practitioner on Process and Outcome of Nursing Home Care

Findings suggest that the geriatric NP has a useful role in nursing home care.