Long-Term Health Facilities
ATTENDANCE AND INSTITUTIONAL FACILITIES OF LONG-TERM KIDNEY DONORS FOLLOW-UP
... Out total of 178 donors, only 111 were reachable and 80 of them participated in the survey (72%). The findings revealed that most of the donors (71.2%) attend the follow-up regularly. Nevertheless, donors seem to neglect ...
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Evaluation of the antipsychotic medication review process at four long-term facilities in Alberta
... Our study showed that IP medication reviews were success- fully implemented in most LTC sites and proved beneficial to improving resident quality of care and health outcomes. The successful implementation of the ...
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Genomic Analysis of Blastocystis hominisStrains Isolated from Two Long Term Health Care Facilities
... Analysis of RFLP profiles of SSU rDNA, termed riboprint- ing (4), was performed for the evaluation of the subtype and the route of transmission between two health care facilities using diagnostic PCR ...
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Long-term evaluation of the implementation of a large fall and fracture prevention program in long-term care facilities
... care facilities (LTCFs) are settings with a particularly high risk for ...statutory health insurance com- pany [Allgemeine Ortskrankenkasse Bayern (AOK)] decided to finance the implementation and ...
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AN EFFICIENT EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHM FOR LOCATING LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES
... In this section, the computational results of EA and comparisons with existing algorithms are pre- sented. All experiments were carried out on an Intel Core i7-860 2.8 GHz with 8GB RAM memory under Windows 7 Professional ...
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... in Long-term Establishments for the Elderly ...these long-term care facilities, so this study was conducted to compare the epidemiological profile of the prevalent oral pathologies as ...
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Measuring the diffusion of palliative care in long-term care facilities – a death census
... home health services (HHS) that provide help and care, in col- laboration with private primary care practitioners, to patients living at home and b) nursing homes or hospital services for chronic patients (NH) ...
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Medical directors of long-term care facilities: preventing another physician shortage?
... Use of nurse practitioners has been identifi ed as a strategy to alleviate physician shortages in LTC. The medical directors here expressed uncertainty about nurse practitioners’ role; only a small percentage express ...
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Adoption factors associated with electronic health record among long-term care facilities: a systematic review
... chronic health problems that affect their ability to perform everyday ...to health, LTC “ aims to prevent deterioration and promote social adjustment to stages of decline ” and it is delivered through a ...
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Challenges of conducting research in long-term care facilities: a systematic review
... in health care research in various settings [74, ...for health care research in any setting, though some authors believe it is particularly challenging in LTC [40, 76, ...LTC facilities are generally ...
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The relation between autonomy and well being of nursing home residents with dementia: a systematic review
... The term nursing home in the present study refers to an international ...as facilities with a domestic-styled environment that provide long-term care and functional support for elderly people ...
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Should frail older adults be in long-term care facilities?
... Relatives were generally satisfied with the home care ser- vices. They indicated that disabled older adults have access to the special equipment they need; they felt that the older adults had a good life in their own ...
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Barriers to providing palliative care in long-term care facilities.
... Principal component analysis was used to identify meaningful groupings of potential barriers to provid- ing palliative care. Because it was possible that certain facility variables could infl uence the importance of bar- ...
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Short and long term retention in antiretroviral care in health facilities in rural Malawi and Zimbabwe
... the health systems are weak, facing se- vere human resources for health shortages and, infra- structure and drug supply ...peripheral health centres in both programmes to enable ART ...public ...
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Depressive symptoms in long term care facilities in Western Canada: a cross sectional study
... In addition to covariates (Table 1) included in our statis- tical models, we assessed use of the following medications in residents with depressive symptoms: antidepressants, anti- psychotics, anti-anxiety medication ...
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Transmission of methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus in the long term care facilities in Hong Kong
... collective term for all long term nursing facilities that provide daily nursing care for their residents including the use of feeding tubes, urinary catheters and other medical ...allied ...
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Influenza in long term care facilities
... the health services is particularly onerous for those aged 75 and above, with an estimated 36% of all influenza-attributable respiratory hospitalisations and 74% of all influenza-associated deaths occurring in ...
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The general status of patients and limited physical activity as risk factors of Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus occurrence in long term care facilities residents in Krakow, Poland
... clinical data about residents with MRSA (colonized and infected). Infections were defined according to McGeer’s criteria [9] and were detected by trained health personnel of LTCFs cooperating with the project ...
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Donepezil can improve daily activities and promote rehabilitation for severe Alzheimer’s patients in long-term care health facilities
... In this study, we could examine only two LTCHFs. In- deed, it is not easy to involve LTCHFs for research, espe- cially for drug treatment, since it is directly connected to the matter of management. The N1 and N2 ...
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Exploring registered health professionals' assessment of older adults in care facilities : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Philosophy at Massey University, Turitea Campus, Palmerston North, New Zealand /
... The main search terms included: health professionals, assessment, care planning, older adults, aged, elderly, care, careneeds, care facilities, rest homes, long-term care, care plan, car[r] ...
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