Longitudinal Pressure Ulcer Rates after Adoption of Culture Change in Veterans Health Administration Nursing Homes

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 151-155

  Hartmann, Christine W ^a,b   Shwartz, Michael ^a,c   Zhao, Shibei ^a   Palmer, Jennifer A ^a   Berlowitz, Dan R ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

culture change; nursing homes; pressure ulcer; veterans health

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; DECUBITUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NURSING HOME; NURSING HOME PATIENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; VETERANS HEALTH; HOME FOR THE AGED; LONG TERM CARE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION; PRESSURE ULCER; PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY; VETERAN;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING HOMES; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; PRESSURE ULCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ADJUSTMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UNITED STATES; VETERANS;

EID: 84961344396     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.13879     Document Type: Article

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