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Is There Extra Cost of Institutional Care for MS Patients? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Throughout life, patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) require increasing levels of support, rehabilitative services, and eventual skilled nursing facility (SNF) care.
Bajorska, Alina   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Reducing Sepsis Hospitalisations through a Standardized Quality Improvement Program in Skilled Nursing Facilities

open access: yesJournal of Long-Term Care, 2021
Context: Sepsis hospitalisations with subsequent skilled nursing facility (SNF) admissions have had an annual cost of $41 billion in the United States.
Mary Han   +4 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Is Greenacres (Skilled Nursing Facility) the Place to Be?

open access: yesAMA Journal of Ethics, 2005
Physicians should understand the ethical issues surrounding assisting patients who receive Medicare- and Medicaid-funded health care. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association.
Hasan, Shanawani, Kathleen Nathan, Lowe
openaire   +2 more sources

Motivation and hygiene factors for curriculum (re)development and the embedding of technology in accounting programmes

open access: yesAccounting &Finance, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Using Herzberg's two‐factor theory, this paper examines the hygiene and motivation factors that drive (re)development in accounting higher education programmes. Interviews with accounting educators and discipline leaders demonstrate a range of factors at play in the (re)development of accounting programmes in pursuit of embedding relevant ...
Esin Ozdil   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Outcomes in heart failure patients discharged to skilled nursing facilities with delirium

open access: yesESC Heart Failure, 2022
Aim Heart failure (HF) outcomes are disproportionately worse in patients discharged to skilled nursing facilities (SNF) as opposed to home. We hypothesized that dementia and delirium were key factors influencing these differences.
Jacob Lafo   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mobility and other predictors of hospitalization for urinary tract infection: a retrospective cohort study

open access: yesBMC Geriatrics, 2008
Background Many hospitalizations for residents of skilled nursing facilities are potentially avoidable. Factors that could prevent hospitalization for urinary tract infection (UTI) were investigated, with focus on patient mobility.
Kaufman Samuel R   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Effect of Medicare's Prospective Payment System on Discharge Outcomes of Skilled Nursing Facility Residents

open access: yesInquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2004
In July 1998, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) changed the payment method for Medicare (Part A) skilled nursing facility (SNF) care from a cost-based system to a prospective payment system (PPS). Unlike the previous cost-based payment
Walter P. Wodchis   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cost-effectiveness of recommended nurse staffing levels for short-stay skilled nursing facility patients

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2005
Background Among patients in skilled nursing facilities for post-acute care, increased registered nurse, total licensed staff, and nurse assistant staffing is associated with a decreased rate of hospital transfer for selected diagnoses. However, the cost-
Schnelle John F   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Perceptions of Coordination of Care Between Hospice and Skilled Nursing Facility Care Providers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The number of older Americans who are finding Nursing Homes (NH) or Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) as their final place of care is increasing each year, especially the fastest growing segment of the national population who are 85 years and older 1 ...
Gerding, Abigail, Martz, Kim
core   +2 more sources

Haemodynamic Monitoring in the Management Of Cardiogenic Shock in Coronary Care Units

open access: yesCurationis, 1978
The management and nursing care of patients suffering from acute myocardial infarction has changed dramatically over the past decade. With the establishment of coronary care units offering facilities for cardiac monitoring and staffed with nurses holding
L.A. Schreiber
doaj   +1 more source

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