Nursing Home Revenue Source and Information Availability During the Emergency Department Evaluation of Nursing Home Residents

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 332-336

  Platts Mills, Timothy F ^a   Biese, Kevin ^a   LaMantia, Michael ^a   Zamora, Zeke ^a   Patel, Laura N ^a   McCall, Brenda ^a   Egbulefu, Fortune ^a   Busby Whitehead, Jan ^a   Cairns, Charles B ^a   Kizer, John S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Care transitions; Elderly; Emergency

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NURSING HOME; NURSING HOME PATIENT; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PHYSICIAN; QUESTIONNAIRE;

EID: 84860317330     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: 15389375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2010.12.009     Document Type: Article

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