A clinical trial of nurse practitioner care in residential aged care facilities

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics

Volumn 77, Issue , 2018, Pages 129-132

  Arendts, Glenn ^a,b   Deans, Pamela ^b   O'Brien, Keith ^f   Etherton Beer, Christopher ^a,b   Howard, Kirsten ^c   Lewin, Gill ^d   Sim, Moira ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f Collaborative Primary Health Care ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Care coordination; Hospitalisation; Nursing homes; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CARE NURSE PRACTITIONER; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GERIATRIC CARE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH VISITOR; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INDEPENDENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESIDENTIAL HOME; RISK REDUCTION; VERY ELDERLY; AUSTRALIA; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; NURSE PRACTITIONER; NURSING HOME; QUALITY OF LIFE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; NURSE PRACTITIONERS; NURSING HOMES; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 85046782787     PISSN: 01674943     EISSN: 18726976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.archger.2018.05.001     Document Type: Article

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