Integrated care for severely disabled long-term care facility residents: Is it better?

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 315-318

  Wu, Meng Ping ^a,b   Lin, Pay Fan ^c   Lin, Kuan Jia ^c   Sun, Rui Sheng ^c   Yu, Wen Rui ^d,e   Peng, Li Ning ^d,f   Chen, Liang Kung ^d,f  

^a TAIPEI CITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b HUNGKUANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF NURSING AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e Taipei Municipal Hospital Yangming Branch   (Taiwan)

^f Taipei General Veterans Hospital   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Clinical outcome; Integrated care; Long term care; Long term care facility; Nutrion

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN;

AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BLADDER CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DISABLED PERSON; FEMALE; GERIATRIC CARE; GERIATRIC NUTRITION; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; TAIWAN; TUBE FEEDING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE, INTEGRATED; DEMENTIA; ENTERAL NUTRITION; FEMALE; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; NURSING HOMES; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; STROKE; TAIWAN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77649335823     PISSN: 01674943     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.archger.2009.05.004     Document Type: Article

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