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Perceptions of Humanoid Robots in Caregiving: A Study of Skilled Nursing Home and Long Term Care Administrators [PDF]
arXivAs the aging population increases and the shortage of healthcare workers increases, the need to examine other means for caring for the aging population increases. One such means is the use of humanoid robots to care for social, emotional, and physical wellbeing of the people above 65. Understanding skilled and long term care nursing home administrators'
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An investigation of the discriminant power and dimensionality of items used for assessing health condition of elderly people [PDF]
arXiv, 2010 With reference to the questionnaire adopted within the Italian project "Ulisse" to assess health condition of elderly people, we investigate two important issues: discriminant power and actual number of dimensions measured by the items composing the questionnaire.
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Sex‐Based Disparities in Sinonasal Outcomes: A Population‐Based Study
International Forum of Allergy &Rhinology, EarlyView.
Victoria S. Lee +5 more
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract In today's digital age, misinformation propagates rapidly through digital channels, blurring the lines between truth and fiction, and challenging the foundations of trust in information sources. Although affecting all spheres of life, misinformation poses a significant threat to workers highlighting a critical intersection between ...
Ashwani Malhotra +4 more
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BMC Health Services ResearchBackground Relocations within and between nursing homes often induce stress, anxiety, and depression in residents and cause additional workload for and burnout in staff.
Damien S. E. Broekharst +4 more
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Changing Economic Incentives in Long-Term Care [PDF]
Just as managed care has changed utilization and incentives in other parts of health care, there is a whole set of incentives built around long-term care that really matter.
R. Tamara Konetzka
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Item selection by Latent Class-based methods [PDF]
arXiv, 2014 The evaluation of nursing homes is usually based on the administration of questionnaires made of a large number of polytomous items. In such a context, the Latent Class (LC) model represents a useful tool for clustering subjects in homogenous groups corresponding to different degrees of impairment of the health conditions.
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Understanding factors that influence the drug choice of prescribers: A Q‐methodology study
British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.Abstract Introduction Therapeutic decision‐making often involves weighing several treatment options on the basis of, among other things, the disease profile, patient characteristics but also prescriber‐specific factors. This study investigated the factors influencing therapeutic decision‐making among prescribers and explores how these factors differ ...
Mariëlle G. Hartjes +5 more
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Testing for Ownership Mix Efficiency: The Case of the Nursing Home Industry [PDF]
This paper offers an empirical test of ownership mix efficiency in the U.S. nursing home industry. We test to compare the benefits of quality assurance with the costs from the attenuation of property rights that result from an increased presence of ...
John A. Vernon, Rexford E. Santerre
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