What patients intend when they make health care choices and whether they understand the meaning of orders for life-sustaining treatment forms is not well understood. The purpose of this study was to analyze the directives from a sample of emergency department (ED) patients' MOLST forms.
Nursing home (NH) residents are a frail and vulnerable population often faced with iatrogenic effects of hospital stays when transferred to emergency departments for acute changes in health status. Avoidable or unnecessary transfers of care need to be identified and defined to prevent unintended harm. The ...
Nursing homes (NHs) in micropolitan areas are reported to have different facility and market factors than urban NHs, but how these factors contribute to differences in emergency department (ED) visits remains unknown. This study examined and quantified sources of micropolitan-urban differences in NH risk-a...
To describe temporal changes in treatment, care, and short-term mortality outcomes of geriatric patients during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.