Dying in a Nursing Home: Treatable Symptom Burden and its Link to Modifiable Features of Work Context

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 515-520

  Estabrooks, Carole A ^a   Hoben, Matthias ^a   Poss, Jeffrey W ^b   Chamberlain, Stephanie A ^a   Thompson, Genevieve N ^c   Silvius, James L ^d   Norton, Peter G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alberta Context Tool (ACT); Dementia; Nursing homes; Organizational context; Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI); Symptom burden end of life care

Indexed keywords

NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

AGED; ALBERTA CONTEXT TOOL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CANADA; CHALLENGING BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECUBITUS; DELIRIUM; DEMENTIA; DYING; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; ILLNESS TRAJECTORY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NURSING HOME; NURSING HOME PATIENT; NURSING HOME PERSONNEL; NURSING MINIMUM DATA SET; PAIN; PATIENT SAFETY; PREVALENCE; RESIDENT ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; TERMINAL CARE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VERY ELDERLY; WORK ENVIRONMENT; ALBERTA; CLINICAL TRIAL; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; MANITOBA; MULTICENTER STUDY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; SASKATCHEWAN;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALBERTA; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MANITOBA; NURSING HOMES; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SASKATCHEWAN; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84929954890     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: 15389375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2015.02.007     Document Type: Article

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