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October 23, 2019
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April 2, 2014
International Survey of Nursing Home Research Priorities
This article reports the findings of a policy survey designed to establish research priorities to inform future research strategy and advance nursing home practice. The survey was administered in 2 rounds during 2013, and involved a combination of open questions and ranking exercises to move toward consens...
JAMDA
September 23, 2017
Modeling the Association Between Home Care Service Use and Entry Into Residential Aged Care: A Cohort Study Using Routinely Collected Data
To examine home care service-related and person-based factors associated with time to entry into permanent residential aged care.
JAMDA
August 1, 2022
The Medical Needs and Characteristics of Cancer and Progressive Neurologic Disease Patients Who Use Home-Based Medical Care in Korea: A Retrospective Study for 2011-2020
To investigate the needs and characteristics of patients with cancer and neurologic disorders requiring home-based medical care (HBMC).
JAMDA
November 29, 2023
Association of COVID-19 Vaccination Rates and Facility Characteristics on COVID-19 Cases, Hospitalizations, and Deaths in US Nursing Homes
Nursing home residents have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite recognition as a priority group for receipt of the COVID-19 vaccine, vaccine uptake and COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths in nursing home facilities were variable across nursing homes. This study has 2...
JAMDA
April 27, 2021
Nursing Home Profit Margins and Citations for Infection Prevention and Control
Recent rampant spread of COVID-19 cases in nursing homes has highlighted the concerns around nursing homes’ ability to contain the spread of infections. The ability of nursing homes to invest in quality improvement initiatives may depend on resource availability. In this study, we sought to examine whether...
JAMDA
March 21, 2015
Dying in a Nursing Home: Treatable Symptom Burden and its Link to Modifiable Features of Work Context
High-quality care at the end of life supports freedom from pain and other potentially burdensome symptoms. Lowering symptom burden at the end of life is an urgent and achievable goal in delivering services in nursing home settings. Few published reports describe symptom burden among older adults in nursing...
JAMDA
June 25, 2021
Describing Transfers Originating Out-of-Facility for Nursing Home Residents
Potentially avoidable hospitalizations are harmful to nursing home residents. Despite extensive care transitions research, no studies have described transfers originating outside the nursing home (eg, visiting family members or at a dialysis center). This article describes 82 out-of-facility (community) tr...
JAMDA
July 9, 2014
Hospice Family Members' Perceptions of and Experiences With End-of-Life Care in the Nursing Home
Even though more than 25% of Americans die in nursing homes, end-of-life care has consistently been found to be less than adequate in this setting. Even for those residents on hospice, end-of-life care has been found to be problematic. This study had 2 research questions; (1) How do family members of hospi...
JAMDA
March 17, 2023