Nursing home characteristics and potentially preventable hospitalizations of long-stay residents

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1730-1736

  Intrator, Orna ^a   Zinn, Jacqueline ^b   Mor, Vincent ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambulatory care sensitive (ACS) conditions; Gibbs sampling; InterRAI; Multilevel models; Propensity analyses; Quality of care

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL STAFF; NURSE PRACTITIONER; NURSING HOME; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT; RESIDENT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NURSING CARE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; NURSING CARE; NURSING HOMES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 6944252263     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2004.52469.x     Document Type: Article

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