Efforts to improve primary care delivery to nursing home residents

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 627-632

  Fama, Teresa ^a,b,c   Fox, Peter D ^a,b,c  

^a ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b AAHP Medical Affairs   (United States)

^c PDF Incorporated   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GERIATRIC CARE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION; MEDICARE; NURSE PRACTITIONER; NURSING HOME; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; REVIEW; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CHRONIC PATIENT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; COUGHING; CRACKLE; CUSTODIAL CARE; DECUBITUS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DURABLE POWER OF ATTORNEY; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FEVER; GERIATRICIAN; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LIVING WILL; MALE; MANAGED CARE; MEDICAL HISTORY; NURSING CARE; NURSING HOME PATIENT; NURSING STAFF; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT; PNEUMONIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SELF NEGLECT; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT REFUSAL; URGE INCONTINENCE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CULTURE; VERY ELDERLY;

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; FUROSEMIDE; INFUSION FLUID; THIAZIDE DIURETIC AGENT;

EID: 0030971607     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1997.tb03100.x     Document Type: Review

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