A longitudinal evaluation of resident's health outcomes in nursing homes and residential care homes in Taiwan

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1007-1018

  Liu, Li Fan ^a   Wen, Miin Jye ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Health outcome; Institutional care; Long term care; Outcome measures

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH STATUS; HOME FOR THE AGED; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LONG TERM CARE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NURSING HOME; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TAIWAN;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HEALTH STATUS; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LONG-TERM CARE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING HOMES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TAIWAN;

EID: 79951720719     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11136-010-9667-8     Document Type: Article

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