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June 27, 2014
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April 5, 2023
Measuring Nursing Home Quality of Life: Validated Measures Are Poorly Correlated With Proxies From MDS and Quality of Life Deficiency Citationsl
Ensuring quality of life (QoL) is an important goal of person-centered nursing home care. The provision of person-centered care relies on information captured in the Minimum Data Set 3.0 (MDS). It is unclear to what extent MDS items or QoL-related facility deficiency citations correlate with validated meas...
JAMDA
May 29, 2015
The “Leap Forward” in Nursing Home Development in Urban China: Future Policy Directions
In the past decade, the number of nursing beds in China has increased annually by an average of 10%, reaching 4.3 million in 2013. Although the State Council pushed for further increases to a ratio of 30 nursing home beds per 1000 persons by 2015, service utilization, quality assurance, and regulatory over...
JAMDA
June 26, 2015
Physician Treatment Orders in Dutch Nursing Homes
Physician treatment orders (PTOs) prevent burdensome unnecessary medical treatment of frail nursing home patients. The aim was to determine the prevalence of PTOs and time duration between nursing home admittance and PTO completion.
JAMDA
May 8, 2023
Staffing Shortages, Staffing Hours, and Resident Deaths in US Nursing Homes During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Staffing shortages at nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic may have impacted care providers' staffing hours and affected residents’ care and outcomes. This study examines the association of staffing shortages with staffing hours and resident deaths in nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
JAMDA
November 1, 2021
Is High-Speed Resistance Training an Efficient and Feasible Exercise Strategy for Frail Nursing Home Residents?
High-speed resistance training (HSRT) has been strongly recommended by experts in the field as a possible strategy to manage frailty in older adults; however, investigations to support this hypothesis are still lacking. Frailty is highly prevalent in nursing home residents and understanding if HSRT might c...
JAMDA
September 3, 2016
Comparing Public Quality Ratings for Accredited and Nonaccredited Nursing Homes
Compare quality ratings of accredited and nonaccredited nursing homes using the publicly available Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Nursing Home Compare data set.
JAMDA
May 23, 2017
IAGG/IAGG GARN International Survey of End-of-Life Care in Nursing Homes
This article reports the findings of a survey on end-of-life (EOL) care in nursing homes of 18 long-term care experts across 15 countries. The experts were chosen as a convenience-based sample of known experts in each country. The survey was administered in 2016 and included both open-ended responses for d...
JAMDA
August 5, 2015
Prevalence of Frailty in Nursing Homes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Nursing home patients are expected to be very frail. However, evidence on frailty in a nursing home setting is scarce in the literature. Especially prevalence of frailty in this population is unknown.
JAMDA
March 27, 2020