Nursing home work environment and the risk of pressure ulcers and incontinence

Health Services Research

Volumn 47, Issue 3 PART 1, 2012, Pages 1179-1200

  Temkin Greener, Helena ^a   Cai, Shubing ^b   Zheng, Nan Tracy ^c   Zhao, Hongwei ^d   Mukamel, Dana B ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

consistent assignment; health outcomes; Nursing homes; staff cohesion; teams

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DECUBITUS; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INCONTINENCE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICARE; NURSING HOME; NURSING STAFF; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; TEAMWORK; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NEW YORK; NURSING HOMES; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PRESSURE ULCER; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RISK ADJUSTMENT; URINARY INCONTINENCE; WORKPLACE;

EID: 84861182712     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2011.01353.x     Document Type: Article

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