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Hospital Readmission After Traumatic Brain Injury Hospitalization in Community‐Dwelling Older Adults

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To examine the risk of hospital readmission after an index hospitalization for TBI in older adults. Methods Using data from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study, we used propensity score matching of individuals with an index TBI‐related hospitalization to individuals with (1) non‐TBI hospitalizations (primary analysis)
Rachel Thomas, Connor A. Law, Joan A. Casey, Thomas Mosley, Rebecca F. Gottesman, Ramon Diaz‐Arrastia, Holly Elser, Andrea L. C. Schneider   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Creating Careers, Improving Care: A Win-Win Economic Advancement Strategy for Certified Nursing Assistants in Long-Term Care [PDF]

, 2006
Examines strategies for developing training and education programs that will facilitate career advancement for nursing assistants. Explores the link between recruitment, retention, and advancement practices and the quality of care provided by ...
Heath Prince
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Nursing Home Infection Control Program Characteristics, CMS Citations, and Implementation of Antibiotic Stewardship Policies: A National Study. [PDF]

, 2018
Recently, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) final rule required that nursing homes (NHs) develop an infection control program that includes an antibiotic stewardship component and employs a trained infection preventionist (IP).
Agarwal, Mansi, Dick, Andrew W., Herzig, Carolyn T.A., Pogorzelska-Maziarz, Monika, Stone, Patricia W.   +4 more
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Discovery and Targeted Proteomic Studies Reveal Striatal Markers Validated for Huntington's Disease

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Clinical trials for Huntington's disease (HD) enrolling persons before clinical motor diagnosis (CMD) lack validated biomarkers. This study aimed to conduct an unbiased discovery analysis and a targeted examination of proteomic biomarkers scrutinized by clinical validation. Methods Cerebrospinal fluid was obtained from PREDICT‐HD and
Daniel Chelsky, Cara Joyce, H. Jeremy Bockholt, Paul A. Rudnick, William H. Adams, Fiona McAllister, Justin W. Smock, Michael A. Newton, Jane S. Paulsen   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Overview of International Staff Time Measurement Validation Studies of the RUG-III Case-mix System

Health Services Insights, 2019
The RUG-III case-mix system is a method of grouping patients in long-term and post-acute care settings. RUG-III groups patients by relative per diem resource consumption and may be used as the basis for prospective payment systems to ensure that facility
Luke A Turcotte, Jeff Poss, Brant Fries, John P Hirdes   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Validity of a Wearable Digital Insole for Assessing Gait ON and OFF in Parkinson's Disease

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Gait impairment is a distinctive symptom of Parkinson's disease that negatively impact mobility. We assessed the validity of wearable digital insoles against a validated reference gait analysis system for measuring select gait characteristics in patients with Parkinson's disease. Methods A comparative analysis between digital insoles
Deborah A. Hall, Kimberly Kwei, Rolando J. Acosta, Bharatkumar Koyani, Erin Robertson, Pratyush Rai, Roland Barge, Emily Timm, Nicollette L. Purcell, Natasha Desai, Dhanesh Patel, Ana‐Maria Visoiu‐Knapp, Samuel Stuart, Rinol Alaj, Matthew F. Wipperman, Oren Levy, Joan A. O'Keefe   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sex Differences in Medication Discontinuation in Axial Spondyloarthritis

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective We examined sex differences in medication discontinuation among patients with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) initiating tumor necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFi), interleukin‐17 inhibitors (IL‐17i), or JAK inhibitors (JAKi). Methods Using data from the Rheumatology Informatics System for Effectiveness (RISE) Registry (2003–2025), we assessed ...
Rachael Stovall, Cinthia Blat, Eric Roberts, Jean W. Liew, Katherine Wysham, Namrata Singh, Janna Friedly, Lianne S. Gensler, Gabriela Schmajuk, Jinoos Yazdany   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

A cross-sectional study on patient satisfaction in an Urban Health Care Centre of Siliguri Municipal Corporation, Darjeeling, West Bengal

Medical Journal of Dr. D.Y. Patil University, 2016
Background: Patient satisfaction can be explored which may draw attention of the health care providers, administrators, and health policy makers, in order to monitor the performance, determine patients′ needs, plan the development of services, and ...
Sasthi Narayan Chakraborty, Sharmistha Bhattacherjee, Md Abdur Rahaman   +2 more
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Prison Bed Profiteers: How Corporations Are Reshaping Criminal Justice in the U.S. [PDF]

, 2012
Examines concerns with the role and performance of private prisons, including reports of abuse and neglect, low pay and limited training for staff, poor government oversight, and lack of cost savings and community economic benefit.

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Use of the Physician Orders for Scope of Treatment Program in Indiana Nursing Homes [PDF]

, 2018
OBJECTIVES: To assess the use of the Indiana Physician Orders for Scope of Treatment (POST) form to record nursing home (NH) resident treatment preferences and associated practices. DESIGN: Survey. SETTING: Indiana NHs. PARTICIPANTS: Staff
Bakoyannis, Giorgos, Hammes, Bernard J., Hickman, Susan E., Myers, Anne L., Sachs, Greg A., Sudore, Rebecca L., Tang, Qing, Torke, Alexia M.   +7 more
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