Nursing Homes

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.

Report

The nursing home: neither home nor hospital

Presents data on the current nursing home situation, including descriptions of the homes themselves and the patients housed therein. The growth of the nursing home industry has made it a significant part of the medical care scene today. Its increasin...

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Joanna Carroll

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Catherine C. Cohen

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Thomas W. Concannon

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Andrew W. Dick

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