Caring for the Ages
July 31, 2018
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Caring for the Ages
November 29, 2017
Facilities Get Help With Mandated Antibiotic Stewardship Programs
JAMDA
November 23, 2021
Facility Characteristics Associated With Intensity of Care of Nursing Homes and Hospital Referral Regions
Intensity of care, such as hospital transfers and tube feeding of residents with advanced dementia varies by nursing home (NH) within and across regions. Little work has been done to understand how these 2 levels of influence relate. This study's objectives are to identify facility factors associated ...
JAMDA
October 15, 2017
Facility-Level Factors and Outcomes After Skilled Nursing Facility Admission for Trauma and Surgical Patients
Patients discharged to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) have worse outcomes than those discharged to home, but whether this is due to differences in facility-level factors in addition to patient characteristics is not known. We aimed to determine whether SNF-level factors including nurse staffing and pati...
Caring for the Ages
March 1, 2017
Facing Deconstructive Criticism
Caring for the Ages
October 23, 2021
Facing the Challenges of Understanding and Managing Behavior and Psychiatric Issues
JAMDA
June 20, 2022
Factors Affecting SARS-CoV-2 Test Discordance in Skilled Nursing Facilities
Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and antigen tests for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) are sometimes discordant. We evaluated the discordance between antigen and PCR tests sampled in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) to assess the relationship of symptom pr...
JAMDA
January 11, 2022
Factors and Outcomes Associated With Dysphagia in Hospitalized Persons With Dementia
Dysphagia is prevalent in older adults with dementia, particularly in the acute care setting. The objective of this study was to use an innovative approach to extract a more representative sample of patients with dysphagia from the electronic health record (EHR) to determine patient characteristics, hospit...
JAMDA
October 7, 2020
Factors Associated With 30-Day Rehospitalization and Mortality in Older Patients After a Pneumonia Admission
Short-term rehospitalization and mortality are common events in older patients after a pneumonia admission, yet little knowledge exists on how to identify the patients at risk of these events. This knowledge is needed to ensure that health care attention is given to those with the highest needs. We therefo...
JAMDA
August 21, 2020