Racial and Ethnic Comparisons of Nursing Home Residents at Admission

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 568-579

  Buchanan, Robert J ^a   Rosenthal, Mark ^b   Graber, David R ^c   Wang, Suojin ^d   Kim, Myung Suk ^e  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Sogang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

ethnicity; Minimum Data Set; minorities; Nursing facilities; race

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; AGED; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH STATUS; HISPANIC; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PACIFIC ISLANDER; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EID: 53049109320     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: 15389375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2008.04.012     Document Type: Article

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