What Are Nursing Facilities Doing to Reduce Potentially Avoidable Hospitalizations?

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 442-444

  Daras, Laura Coots ^a   Wang, Joyce M ^a   Ingber, Melvin J ^a   Ormond, Catherine ^a   Khatutsky, Galina ^a   Feng, Zhanlian ^a   Breg, Nathaniel W ^b  

^a RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

avoidable hospitalizations; hospitalizations; Nursing facilities; quality improvement programs

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY CARE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; MEDICAL DIRECTOR; NURSING; RESIDENT; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; NURSING HOME; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARDS; TRENDS; UNITED STATES;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; NURSING HOMES; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85016026967     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: 15389375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2017.02.007     Document Type: Article

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