Personalizing Nursing Home Compare and the Discharge from Hospitals to Nursing Homes

Health Services Research

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 2076-2094

  Mukamel, Dana B ^a   Amin, Alpesh ^b   Weimer, David L ^c   Ladd, Heather ^a   Sharit, Joseph ^d   Schwarzkopf, Ran ^e   Sorkin, Dara H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^e NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

hospital discharge; nursing home compare; Nursing homes; quality; report cards

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD; NURSING HOME; NURSING HOME COMPARE PLUS; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; TRAVEL; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL; MOBILE APPLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STANDARDS; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; NURSING HOMES; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84996848734     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.12588     Document Type: Article

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