Predictors of resident outcome improvement in nursing homes

Western Journal of Nursing Research

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 974-993

  Wan, Thomas T H ^a,b,c   Zhang, Ning Jackie ^a,d   Unruh, Lynn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (Taiwan)

^c NIH Study Section

^d NIH/NINR

Author keywords

Autoregressive latent trajectory modeling; Nurse staffing; Nursing care deficiencies; Resident outcomes improvement

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; NURSING HOME; NURSING PROCESS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; STANDARD;

INPATIENTS; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; NURSING HOMES; NURSING PROCESS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 33750524835     PISSN: 01939459     EISSN: 15528456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0193945906289331     Document Type: Article

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