Resident-to-Resident Violent Incidents in Nursing Homes

JAMA

Volumn 291, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 591-598

  Shinoda Tagawa, Tomoko ^a,c   Leonard, Ralph ^b   Pontikas, Jean ^c   McDonough, John E ^a,d   Allen, Donna ^c   Dreyer, Paul I ^c  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d Health Care for All   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGGRESSIVENESS; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRUISE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISABILITY; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; FRACTURE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; JOINT DISLOCATION; LACERATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NURSING HOME; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENT; RISK FACTOR; RUNAWAY BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL HOSTILITY; VIOLENCE; WANDERING; WOUND; CASE CONTROL STUDY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; INJURY; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NURSING HOMES; RISK FACTORS; VIOLENCE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 1342331313     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.291.5.591     Document Type: Article

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