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Functional Impairment and Postacute Care Discharge Setting May Be Useful for Stroke Survival Prognostication

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2022
Background The aim of this study was to discussions about post‐stroke outcomes related to post‐stroke function and post‐acute care discharge setting.inform patient‐provider.
Mellanie V. Springer, Lesli E. Skolarus, Chunyang Feng, James F. Burke   +3 more
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Physical Activity Behavior of Patients at a Skilled Nursing Facility: Longitudinal Cohort Study

JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 2022
BackgroundOn-body wearable sensors have been used to predict adverse outcomes such as hospitalizations or fall, thereby enabling clinicians to develop better intervention guidelines and personalized models of care to prevent ...
Ramin Ramezani, Wenhao Zhang, Pamela Roberts, John Shen, David Elashoff, Zhuoer Xie, Annette Stanton, Michelle Eslami, Neil S Wenger, Jacqueline Trent, Antonia Petruse, Amelia Weldon, Andy Ascencio, Majid Sarrafzadeh, Arash Naeim   +14 more
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Patient safety measurement tools used in nursing homes: a systematic literature review

BMC Health Services Research, 2022
Background An increase in the number of older adults has highlighted the important issue of the safety of residents in nursing homes. This review aimed to review previous studies on patient safety of older adults living in nursing homes, analyze the ...
Kyoung-A Kim, Jungeun Lee, Dahee Kim, Deulle Min   +3 more
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Healthcare Professionals’ Perspectives on the Outgoing Geriatric Team: A Qualitative Explorative Study

Journal of Ageing and Longevity, 2022
The need for communication and collaboration increases when an older patient is discharged from the hospital, as the transition of care is complex for older patients living with multiple concurrent diseases.
Sanne Have Beck, Dorthe Susanne Nielsen
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Is There Extra Cost of Institutional Care for MS Patients? [PDF]

, 2013
Throughout life, patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) require increasing levels of support, rehabilitative services, and eventual skilled nursing facility (SNF) care.
Bajorska, Alina, Mukamel, Dana B, Noyes, Katia, Weinstock-Guttman, Bianca   +3 more
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Post-acute care use patterns among Hospital Service Areas by older adults in the United States: a cross-sectional study

BMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background Despite the success of stroke rehabilitation services, differences in service utilization exist. Some patients with stroke may travel across regions to receive necessary care prescribed by their physician.
Julianna M. Dean, Kimberly Hreha, Ickpyo Hong, Chih-Ying Li, Daniel Jupiter, John Prochaska, Timothy Reistetter   +6 more
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Compulsory notification at skilled nursing facilities [PDF]

Revista da Associação Médica Brasileira, 2017
Summary Introduction: Notifiable diseases (NDs) encompass conditions of high clinical severity and/or contagious. Being closed communities, long-term care facilities (LTCF) are places that deserve attention on their own, but one might be left wondering: what is the reality of NDs at Brazilian LTCFs?
Gorzoni, Milton Luiz, Aguado, Márcia Regina Valadares, Pires, Sueli Luciano, Faria, Lilian de Fátima Costa   +3 more
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Candida auris in skilled nursing facilities

Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Disease, 2023
Candida auris is a fungal organism resistant to several classes of antifungals. Since its identification in 2009, it has gained worldwide attention in healthcare for its virulence and resistance to commonly used antifungal therapeutics. Although its origin and mechanisms of transmission are not fully elucidated, it is widely recognized as a high ...
Philip S. Yune, Jared Coe, Mana Rao, Michael Y. Lin   +3 more
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Associations of Self‐Reported History of Depression and Antidepressant Use Before Stroke Onset With Poststroke Post–Acute Rehabilitation Care—An Exploratory Study: The BASIC (Brain Attack Surveillance in Corpus Christi) Project

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2019
Background Prestroke depression status and post–acute rehabilitation care (PARC) are determinants of poststroke depression and function. However, little is known on how prestroke depression status affects PARC placement, a possible pathway for upstream ...
Eric L. Stulberg, Liming Dong, Alexander R. Zheutlin, Sehee Kim, Edward S. Claflin, Lesli E. Skolarus, Lewis B. Morgenstern, Lynda D. Lisabeth   +7 more
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Lessons learned from COVID‐19 outbreak in a skilled nursing facility, Washington State

Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open, 2020
Long‐term care facilities have been identified as a local epicenter of disease among populations vulnerable to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19). A skilled nursing facility in Washington State was the first major site of COVID‐19 infections in the ...
Stephen C. Morris, Aaron T. Resnick, Susan A. England, Susan A. Stern, Steven H. Mitchell   +4 more
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