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1. Provider perspectives on how to effectively present information on quality: focus groups discuss collecting and presenting data for quality improvement purposes. A review of the findings

Author

Ejaz, Farida Kassim and Peters, Brenda

Subjects
Long-term care of the sick -- Research, Nursing homes -- Research, Medical care -- Quality management, Medical care -- Research, Patients -- Care and treatment, Patients -- Research, Business, Health care industry
Abstract

Information on nursing home quality via online data sets such as Nursing Home Compare and numerous trade journals such as Nursing Homes/Long Term Care Management has become increasingly popular. Literature [...]

Published
2007

3. Nursing home residents tell their story: researchers find themes emerging from a resident survey--and they offer actions for administration to take

Author

Taunton, Roma Lee, Coffland, Valorie, Pedram, Sara, Piamjariyakul, Ubolrat, and Bott, Marjorie J.

Subjects
Nursing home patients -- Research, Nursing homes -- Research, Business, Health care industry
Abstract

In your nursing home, what makes residents happy or unhappy? What are their special wishes? We posed those questions to 245 residents at 10 nursing homes located in two Midwestern [...]

Published
2006

4. The safety program sunset for sundowning: this facility's staff came up with plans to attack the most hazardous part of many residents' day. (2002 Optima Award Winner)

Author

Hagerly, Debra

Subjects
Nursing homes -- Research, Geriatrics -- Research, Business, Health care industry
Abstract

If you were to ask any professional about the phenomenon of geriatric sundowning--a burst of energy some residents experience at sundown--most could define and describe it without hesitation. It occurs [...]

Published
2002

5. Fall Prevention Without Restraints: A Project

Subjects
Health care industry -- Research, Nursing homes -- Research, Business, Health care industry
Abstract

Adapted from a 1999 OPTIMA Awards Entry Although our facility's Restraint Reduction Project was initiated on April 1, 1994, it is an ongoing project because the need to balance freedom [...]

Published
2000

6. Anti-Aging Research and the Future of SNFs

Author

Stoil, Michael J.

Subjects
Rhesus monkey -- Research, Nursing homes -- Research, Aging -- Research, Business, Health care industry
Abstract

Twelve-dozen monkeys maintained at government expense might radically change the nursing home field early in the next century. The rhesus monkeys, aged 18 to 35 years, are part of a [...]

Published
1999

7. How to institute primary nursing in long-term care

Author

Colling, Joyce and Doan, Judy

Subjects
Nursing homes -- Research, Nurses -- Practice, Long-term care of the sick -- Research, Nursing home care -- Research, Business, Health care industry
Abstract

How to Institute Primary Nursing In Long-Term Care The use of primary nursing in acute-care settings has been reported widely in the literature1, 2, 3, 4, 5 but only recently [...]

Published
1987

8. Lack of recognition and treatment of active problems in geriatric nursing home patients

Author

Cooper, James W.

Subjects
Urinary tract infections -- Drug therapy -- Research, Medication errors -- Research, Depression in old age -- Drug therapy -- Research, Pharmaceutical services -- Research, Hypokalemia -- Drug therapy -- Research, Drug therapy -- Research, Geriatric pharmacology -- Research, Osteoarthritis -- Drug therapy -- Research, Constipation -- Drug therapy -- Research, Nursing homes -- Research, Hypertension -- Drug therapy -- Research
Abstract

Abstract The underrecognition and lack of treatment of active problems in a 72-bed nursing home over a two-year period was studied. Forty-seven cases of therapeutic need without treatment or dosage-schedule [...]

Published
1988

9. Study: staffing level related to resident in-bed time

Author

Edwards, Douglas J.

Subjects
Sick -- Care and treatment, Sick -- Research, Nursing homes -- Officials and employees, Nursing homes -- Research, Workers -- Services, Workers -- Research, Business, Health care industry
Abstract

Residents in low-staffed nursing homes could be spending as much as an average of 17 hours a day in bed, according to research by the Borun Center for Gerontological Research [...]

Published
2004

10. Study shows inappropriate drug scheduling

Author

Cooper, James W.

Subjects
Drugs -- Dosage and administration, Geriatric pharmacology -- Research, Drug utilization -- Research, Nursing homes -- Research
Abstract

The inappropriate scheduling and administration of medications in a geriatric nursing home was studied by a consultant pharmacist in a 72-bed geriatric nursing home over a two-year period. Noted were [...]

Published
1988

11. Hearings of National Academy of Sciences-Institute of Medicine

Author

Gebhardt, R. Bruce

Subjects
Nursing homes -- Research, United States. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services -- Research
Abstract

Philadelphia Hearings of NAS/IOM Patients' populism surely enjoyed one of its finest days SEptember 11 in Philadelphia, at the first of five 'public meetings' schedules around the country by the [...]

Published
1984

12. Questionable drug efficacy in dementia, anemia, and urinary infections

Author

Cooper, James W.

Subjects
Urinary tract infections -- Drug therapy -- Research, Dementia -- Drug therapy -- Research, Anemia -- Drug therapy -- Research, Drug utilization -- Research, Nursing homes -- Research
Abstract

Abstract Drugs ordered on a chronic basis for patients of a 72-bed skilled nursing facility were reviewed by a consultant pharmacist for efficacy as part of drug regimen reviews, over [...]

Published
1988

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