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Reducing Polypharmacy in Extended Care

Southern Medical Journal, 1995
In this 5-year prospective study, we determined the feasibility of reducing polypharmacy in a long-term care institution by a systematic review of the pharmacy records. At 6-month intervals, the computer printout of all medications prescribed to patients in a 550-bed institution was reviewed.
Hamdy, Ronald Charles, Moore, Sharon Wyatt, Whalen, Kathleen, Donnelly, John P., Compton, Rhonda, Testerman, Frank, Haulsee, Phyllis, Hughes, James   +7 more
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Commentary: Extended Care Paths and the Continuum of Care [PDF]

American Journal of Medical Quality, 1997
CARE PATHS are a managed care tool used in many of today's acute care hospitals. Developed by a hospital's health care team, their strength lies in a clear statement of expectations and accountability, and in their use as a communication tool among those involved in the care of a specific patient.
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MEDICAL CARE IN THE EXTENDED CARE FACILITY*

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 1971
Abstract:Seven case reports are used to illustrate various aspects of quality care for the ill aged in an extended care facility or a nursing home. The majority of these patients require maximal nursing care for activities of daily living. Quality medical care implies the physician's capacity to design a therapeutic program involving the coordinated ...
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Extended Hospital Care as Treatment of Choice

Psychiatric Services, 1979
A review of the histories of six patients who failed to adapt to community living after hospital discharge identified six factors that are predictive of serious maladjustment in the community. The are the absence of a family or soical network, repeated threats of violent behavior, previous hospitalization, poor previous functioning, inability to take ...
Carolyn Winget, Melvin S. Gale, Joanne Zaleski   +2 more
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Appropriate length of extended day care

International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, 2004
Extended day care (EDC) is a one‐day admission spending one night in hospital. Many EDC patients do not need hospital care over night, so probably they could be transferred to a day surgery setting, resulting in decreased costs and increased efficiency.
Peter Pop, Lambert J. G. G. Panis, Frank W.S.M. Verheggen, Martin H. Prins   +3 more
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Scabies in the Extended Care Facility Revisited

International Journal of Dermatology, 1991
Abstract: Infestations with Sarcoptes scabiei var hominis re‐main a problem in nursing home patients. While the traditional signs of scabies include burrows and red papules found on the fingerwebs, chest, waist, or genitalia, the elderly or infirm patient may have only a nonspecific pruritic eruption.
Lawrence Charles Parish, Joseph A. Witkowski, Larry E. Millikan   +2 more
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Model Program Pediatric Extend Care

Children's Health Care, 1988
Chronically ill, technology dependent children deserve a more normalized environment than can be provided in an acute hospital setting. Children's Hospital, Inc., Columbus, Ohio, Northland Terrace Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, and the State of Ohio Department of Human Services collaborated to design a pilot project that would meet the needs of ...
Sallyann V. Schwab, Ruth A. Chavez
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Nursing Home and Extended Care [PDF]

, 1978
The nursing home patient admitted today may be in the institution and under the physician’s care for a few days, a month, a year, or ten years. Extended care is a special challenge, and the physician can contribute greatly to his patient’s well being and health, with a unique opportunity for practicing the philosophy of providing continuing care.
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Leaving Care and Extended Families

Adoption & Fostering, 1998
Young people in their teens are particularly vulnerable when leaving care or accommodation. This is recognised in the Children Act 1989 for England and Wales, which seeks to improve the situation for care leavers by encouraging partnership between the young people themselves, their birth families and carers.
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Extending palliative care to patients with dementia

British Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2010
Palliative care should be available to all with a life-limiting illness, including those with dementia. This article examines the palliative needs of those with dementia and how these needs might be met.
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