Falls and Nursing Home Residents With Cognitive Impairment: New Insights into Quality Measures and Interventions

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 819.e1-819.e6

  Nazir, Arif ^a   Mueller, Christine ^b   Perkins, Anthony ^a   Arling, Greg ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dementia special care units; Nursing homes; Quality improvement; Scorecards

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868347225     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: 15389375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2012.07.018     Document Type: Article

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