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13. Determinants of hospital-to-nursing home placement delays: a pilot study.
Estimates of hospital-to-nursing home placement delays have always been varied, and given Medicare's new Prospective Payment System (PPS) based on diagnosis-related groups (DRGs), they are likely to have changed again. Theory and previous research suggest that four patient characteristics are the main causes of delays: Medicaid as the patient's nursing home
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14. Nursing home performance under case-mix reimbursement: responding to heavy-care incentives and market changes.
OBJECTIVE: To examine the effect of case mix-adjusted reimbursement policy and market factors on nursing home performance. DATA SOURCES AND STUDY SETTING: Data from Medicaid certification inspection surveys, Medicaid cost reports, and the Kentucky State Center for Health Statistics for the years 1989 and 1991, to examine changes in nursing home performance s
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15. Hospital registered nurse shortages: environmental, patient, and institutional predictors.
OBJECTIVE: To examine the characteristics of acute-care hospitals that report registered nurse shortages when a widespread shortage exists and when a widespread shortage is no longer evident. DATA SOURCE: Secondary data from the American Hospital Association's Nursing Personnel Survey from 1990 and 1992 were used. The study population was all acute-care hosp
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16. The hospital nursing shortage. A paradox of increasing supply and increasing vacancy rates.
A serious shortage of nurses has developed since 1984 despite a growing number of employed nurses and a substantial decline in the number of hospital inpatient days. The evidence suggests that the shortage is the result of an increased demand for nurses, not a decline in supply. The increased demand in large part has resulted from the substitution of registe
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17. Infant mortality and famine: a study in historical epidemiology in northern England.
OBJECTIVE--To examine whether periodic variations in annual infant mortality were associated with malnutrition and the poor quality of the food supply available to the community. DESIGN--Retrospective study of historical epidemiology of infant mortality by time series analysis and family reconstitution of parish registers of burials and baptisms. SETTING--Pe
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18. The impact of market and organizational characteristics on nursing care facility service innovation: a resource dependency perspective.
OBJECTIVE. Using resource dependency theory as a conceptual framework, this study investigates both the organizational and environmental factors associated with an emerging health care service delivery innovation, the provision of specialty care in designated units in nursing care facilities. We consider two types of specialty units, Alzheimer's Disease and
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19. Mapping the literature of physical therapy.
Physical therapy is a fast growing profession because of the aging population, medical advances, and the public's interest in health promotion. This study is part of the Medical Library Association (MLA) Nursing and Allied Health Resources Section's project to map the allied health literature. It identifies the core journals in physical therapy by analyzing
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20. Hospital discharge decisions, health outcomes, and the use of unobserved information on case-mix severity.
Although implementation of the Medicare prospective payment system has been accompanied by significant decreases in hospital length of stay, the early discharge of some patients may lead to worse health outcomes, particularly if sufficient aftercare services following hospitalization are not available. This article develops an empirical model of the relation
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21. Mapping the literature of health education.
Health education is a relatively new multidisciplinary field concerned with educational programs that empower individuals and communities to play active roles in achieving, protecting, and sustaining their health. Its practitioners have bachelor's, master's, or doctoral degrees and work in educational, worksite, health facility, or agency settings. This bibl
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22. A social systems model of nursing home use.
Causal modeling (path analysis) was applied to data from the 39 mental health catchment areas of Massachusetts to analyze the effects of sociocultural and health-resource variables on long-term-care utilization. The variables chosen explained 53 percent of the variance of long-term-care use by persons 60 and older: 41 percent was explained by the sociocultur
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23. Waiting for placement: an exploratory analysis of determinants of delayed discharges of elderly hospital patients.
This article examines the causes of delayed hospital discharge for 3,111 patients waiting for alternative placement in 80 North Carolina acute care general hospitals during May 1989. Almost all of the patients were elderly: their average age was 77. Delay is defined as the period between the day a patient was judged medically ready for discharge by a dischar
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24. Comparison of Services of Public, Private and Foreign Hospitals from the Perspective of Bangladeshi Patients
Despite recent developments in the Bangladesh healthcare sector, there is still great concern about the quality of healthcare services in the country. This study compared the quality of healthcare services by different types of institutions, i.e. public and private hospitals, from the perspective of Bangladeshi patients to identify the relevant areas for dev
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research.