Improving Nursing Facility Care Through an Innovative Payment Demonstration Project: Optimizing Patient Transfers, Impacting Medical Quality, and Improving Symptoms: Transforming Institutional Care Phase 2

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 66, Issue 8, 2018, Pages 1625-1631

  Unroe, Kathleen T ^a,b   Fowler, Nicole R ^a,b   Carnahan, Jennifer L ^a,b   Holtz, Laura R ^b   Hickman, Susan E ^a   Effler, Shannon ^b   Evans, Russell ^c   Frank, Kathryn I ^a   Ott, Monica L ^a   Sachs, Greg ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR AGING RESEARCH   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

hospitalization; implementation science; nursing facility; quality improvement

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INDIANA; INSTITUTIONAL CARE; LONG TERM CARE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; NURSING HOME; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PHYSICIAN; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; AGED; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HOME FOR THE AGED; MALE; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INDIANA; MALE; MEDICARE; NURSING HOMES; PATIENT TRANSFER; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85050512185     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.15462     Document Type: Article

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