Skilled nursing facility admissions of nursing home residents with advanced dementia

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 61, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1645-1650

  Givens, Jane L ^a,b   Mitchell, Susan L ^a,b   Kuo, Sylvia ^c   Gozalo, Pedro ^c   Mor, Vince ^c   Teno, Joan ^c  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Hebrew Seniorlife's Res Institute   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

dementia; nursing home; skilled nursing facility

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; DEMENTIA; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; NURSING HOME; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; SKILLED NURSING FACILITY; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA;

DEMENTIA; NURSING HOME; SKILLED NURSING FACILITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKILLED NURSING FACILITIES; TERMINAL CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84885670308     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.12476     Document Type: Article

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