The shortened food expectations - Long-term care questionnaire: Assessing nursing home residents' satisfaction with food and food service

Journal of Gerontological Nursing

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 50-59

  Crogan, Neva L ^a   Evans, Bronwynne C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CATERING SERVICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HOME FOR THE AGED; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NURSING HOME; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARD; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION STUDY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOOD SERVICES; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; MALE; NURSING HOMES; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES;

EID: 39049193402     PISSN: 00989134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/00989134-20061101-08     Document Type: Article

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