Specialty care delivery: Bringing infectious disease expertise to the residents of a veterans affairs long-term care facility

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 782-787

  Jump, Robin L P ^a,b,c   Olds, Danielle M ^d   Jury, Lucy A ^a   Sitzlar, Brett ^a   Saade, Elie ^c   Watts, Brook ^c,d   Bonomo, Robert A ^a,b,c   Donskey, Curtis J ^a,b,c  

^a GERIATRIC RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CLINICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d National Quality Scholars Program   (United States)

Author keywords

antimicrobial stewardship; infectious diseases; long term care facility; nursing home; older adults

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BACTERIURIA; CHOLECYSTITIS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; DECUBITUS; DIARRHEA; ENDOCARDITIS; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFECTIOUS ARTHRITIS; INTESTINE FISTULA; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OSTEOMYELITIS; PANCREATITIS; PNEUMONIA; RESIDENTIAL CARE; RESIDENTIAL HOME; TUBERCULOSIS; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VETERANS HEALTH; WOUND INFECTION;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; INFECTION; LONG-TERM CARE; MORBIDITY; UNITED STATES; VETERANS;

EID: 84877986662     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.12206     Document Type: Article

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