Association between proportion of provider clinical effort in nursing homes and potentially avoidable hospitalizations and medical costs of nursing home residents

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 61, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1750-1757

  Kuo, Yong Fang ^a,b   Raji, Mukaila A ^a,b   Goodwin, James S ^a,b  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

avoidable hospitalization; Minimum Data Set; nursing home; primary care

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSE; AGED; ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICARE; NURSING HOME; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PHYSICIAN;

AVOIDABLE HOSPITALIZATION; MINIMUM DATA SET; NURSING HOME; PRIMARY CARE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; NURSING HOMES; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84885604974     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.12441     Document Type: Article

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