Likelihood of Nursing Home Referral for Fecally Incontinent Elderly Patients is Influenced by Physician Views on Nursing Home Care and Outpatient Management of Fecal Incontinence

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 350-354

  Nyrop, Kirsten A ^a   Grover, Madhusudan ^b   Palsson, Olafur S ^c   Heymen, Steve ^c   Palmer, Mary H ^a   Goode, Patricia S ^d   Whitehead, William E ^c   Busby Whitehead, Jan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Fecal incontinence; Nursing home admissions; Physician perspectives

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; GERIATRICS; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NURSING HOME; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICIAN; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE;

EID: 84860340704     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: 15389375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2011.01.010     Document Type: Article

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