Choosing a Nursing Home: What Do Consumers Want to Know, and Do Preferences Vary across Race/Ethnicity?

Health Services Research

Volumn 51, Issue , 2016, Pages 1167-1187

  Hefele, Jennifer Gaudet ^a   Acevedo, Andrea ^b   Nsiah Jefferson, Laurie ^b   Bishop, Christine ^b   Abbas, Yasmin ^b   Damien, Ecaterina ^b   Ramos, Candi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^b BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

consumer information; Nursing homes; public reporting; race ethnicity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CONSUMER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL SENSITIVITY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNICITY; FAMILY; FAMILY STUDY; GESTALT THERAPY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; LANGUAGE; NURSING HOME; RACE; RESIDENT; STAFF; STUDY DESIGN; UNITED STATES; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANCESTRY GROUP; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAUCASIAN; CONSUMER ATTITUDE; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; ETHNOLOGY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STANDARDS; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BOSTON; CONSUMER BEHAVIOR; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING HOMES; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 84958260692     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.12457     Document Type: Article

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