Nursing Home Adverse Events: Further Insight into Highest Risk Periods

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 467-474

  Doupe, Malcolm ^a   Brownell, Marni ^a   St John, Phillip ^b   Strang, David G ^b   Chateau, Dan ^a   Dik, Natalia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adverse events; High risk periods; Nursing home

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HIP FRACTURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; NURSING HOME; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SKIN ULCER; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

EID: 79959577561     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: 15389375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2011.02.002     Document Type: Article

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