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Nursing Home and Nursing Home Physician: The Dutch Experience

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 2004
Dutch nursing home care today includes a broad range of institutional and outreaching care functions. Medical care is an essential part of this care. Nursing home medicine in The Netherlands has developed as an officially acknowledged medical specialty.
Schols, J.M.G.A., Crebolder, H.F.J.M., Weel, C. van   +2 more
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THE SITUATION WITH NURSING HOMES [PDF]

AJN, American Journal of Nursing, 1965
Improved care has come in the past few years, yet an eminent social worker, respected for her leadership in care of the aged, finds the problems overshadow the gains. She reports that nursing homes are too widely considered a business first, a service second. She says they offer nursing as their main commodity, yet the nursing care is usually far below
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Nursing in a Skilled Nursing Home

The American Journal of Nursing, 1966
The physical, emotional, and social disabilities of patients in a proprietary skilled nursing home, as determined by a six-month study, require that they have nursing care which is quite different from that needed by patients in a general voluntary hospital.
Miller Mb, Liebel E, Mierowitz I, Keller D   +3 more
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Pneumonia in the Nursing Home

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 2005
Pneumonia syndromes may be caused by infection or the aspiration of food, acid, or particulate material. Antibiotic-resistant organisms or recurrent aspiration should be considered if the response to treatment is poor. Clinicians should consider discontinuing antibiotics if the resident's status rapidly returns to baseline after a noninfectious macro ...
Paul J. Drinka, Paul J. Drinka, Christopher J. Crnich   +2 more
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Infections in The Nursing Home

Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 1992
Infections are a common cause of morbidity and mortality in nursing home patients. A variety of factors predispose these patients to infections. Infections commonly encountered among these patients include pneumonia, urinary tract infections, tuberculosis, and gastrointestinal and skin infections.
Olive, K. E., Berk, S. L.
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The 'Nursing' in Nursing Homes

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1995
To the Editor. —Dr Kane's 1 essay on long-term care states, in the abstract, "Nursing home care... has been neglected by physicians." And so it should be. The proper focus of physicians is on the treatment and prevention of illness. Debilitated elderly people should no more be considered ipso facto ill than should pregnant women, though anyone in ...
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Delirium in the Nursing Home

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 2013
New-onset or subsyndromal delirium is one of the most disruptive conditions in nursing home life. As shown in this issue of the Journal, delirium occurs in nearly 1 in 5 nursing home residents who experience an acute illness, and delirium is a major risk factor for a noticeable decline in cognition following the acute episode.1 In 6 Dutch nursing homes,
Flaherty, J., Morley, J.
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Variability in Antibiotic Use Across Nursing Homes and the Risk of Antibiotic-Related Adverse Outcomes for Individual Residents.

JAMA Internal Medicine, 2015
IMPORTANCE Antibiotics are frequently and often inappropriately prescribed to patients in nursing homes. These antibiotics pose direct risks to recipients and indirect risks to others residing in the home.
N. Daneman, S. Bronskill, A. Gruneir, A. Newman, H. Fischer, P. Rochon, G. Anderson, C. Bell   +7 more
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