Stakeholder Perspectives on the Optimizing Patient Transfers, Impacting Medical Quality, and Improving Symptoms: Transforming Institutional Care (OPTIMISTIC) Project

Gerontologist

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2018, Pages 1177-1187

  Ersek, Mary ^a,b   Hickman, Susan E ^c   Thomas, Anne C ^d   Bernard, Brittany ^e   Unroe, Kathleen T ^c,e  

^a DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e REGENSTRIEF INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Advance care planning; End of life care; Evaluation; Long term care; Nursing homes; Palliative care; Qualitative analysis: content analysis; Teams interdisciplinary multidisciplinary

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; ADULT; ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTENT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONAL CARE; INTERVIEW; LEADERSHIP; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; NURSE PRACTITIONER; NURSING HOME PERSONNEL; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGISTERED NURSE; RESIDENT; STAFF TRAINING; MANAGEMENT; NURSING HOME; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TERMINAL CARE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INSTITUTIONAL MANAGEMENT TEAMS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LONG-TERM CARE; NURSING HOMES; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT TRANSFER; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 85056288553     PISSN: 00169013     EISSN: 17585341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geront/gnx155     Document Type: Article

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