Caring for the Ages
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Caring for the Ages
February 26, 2024
Identifying New Funding Opportunities: How One Society Chapter Weathered the Pandemic
JAMDA
April 6, 2023
Identifying Nursing Home Residents with Unmet Palliative Care Needs: A Systematic Review of Screening Tool Measurement Properties
Despite common use of palliative care screening tools in other settings, the performance of these tools in the nursing home has not been well established; therefore, the purpose of this review is to (1) identify palliative care screening tools validated for nursing home residents and (2) critically apprais...
JAMDA
June 18, 2019
Identifying Patient Readmissions: Are Our Data Sources Misleading?
The accuracy of data is vital to identifying hospitalization outcomes for clinical trials. Patient attrition and recall bias affects the validity of patient-reported outcomes, and the growing prevalence of Medicare Advantage (MA) could mean Fee-for-Service (FFS) claims are less reliable for ascertaining ho...
JAMDA
February 18, 2015
Identifying Potentially Preventable Emergency Department Visits by Nursing Home Residents in the United States
To identify and describe potentially preventable emergency department (ED) visits by nursing home (NH) residents in the United States. These visits are important because they are common, frequently lead to hospitalization, and can be associated with significant cost to the patient and the health care syste...
JAMDA
April 21, 2023
Identifying Quality Indicators for the Care of Hospitalized Injured Older Adults: A Scoping Review of the Literature
Older adults represent more than 50% of trauma admissions in many high-income countries. Furthermore, they are at increased risk for complications, resulting in worse health outcomes than younger adults and a significant health care utilization burden. Quality indicators (QIs) are used to assess the qualit...
JAMDA
February 5, 2014
Identifying Sarcopenia in Acute Care Setting Patients
To evaluate the prevalence of sarcopenia by applying European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People (EWGSOP) flow chart in an acute care geriatric unit as well as to test a modified version of the EWGSOP diagnostic algorithm combining handgrip and gait speed test to identify subjects with low muscle ...
JAMDA
October 19, 2021
Identifying Unexpected Deaths in Long-Term Care Homes
Predicting unexpected deaths among long-term care (LTC) residents can provide valuable information to clinicians and policy makers. We study multiple methods to predict unexpected death, adjusting for individual and home-level factors, and to use as a step to compare mortality differences at the facility l...
JAMDA
January 9, 2021
Identifying Urinary Tract Infection-Related Information in Home Care Nursing Notes
Urinary tract infection (UTI) is common in home care but not easily captured with standard assessment. This study aimed to examine the value of nursing notes in detecting UTI signs and symptoms in home care.
Caring for the Ages
July 31, 2018