Long-Term Care - Organization & administration
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Supporting culture change: working toward smarter state nursing home regulation.

29 Sep 2009 The traditional nursing home regulatory approach, which uses survey and enforcement to achieve performance improvement, has created tensions between providers and surveyors. It has had limited success in improving quality overall and not necessarily ... Read more...

Transition for adolescents with long-term conditions: event to process.

29 Jun 2009 This paper maps out the evidence relating to quality and user experience of transition services for young people with long-term conditions. The review identified that good quality transition was universally seen as a process as opposed to a single ... Read more...

Study protocol for the development of a European measure of best practice for people with long term mental health problems in institutional care (DEMoBinc).

11 Jun 2009 BACKGROUND: This study aims to build a measure for assessing and reviewing the living conditions, care and human rights of people with longer term mental health problems in psychiatric and social care institutions. Protection of their human rights ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Long-Term Care - Organization & administration'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Supporting culture change: working toward smarter state nursing home regulation. 29 Sep 2009
• Alternate level of care: Ontario addresses the long waits. 30 Jul 2009
• Transition for adolescents with long-term conditions: event to process. 29 Jun 2009
• The changing face of long-term care. 29 Jun 2009
• Study protocol for the development of a European measure of best practice for people with long term mental health problems in institutional care (DEMoBinc). 11 Jun 2009
• [Multi-level analysis of factors related to quality of service in long-term care hospitals] 30 May 2009
• [An interprofessional or an interdisciplinary problem? Distinctions to develop an analytical scheme of interdisciplinarity based on the case of a long-term care hospital] 30 May 2009
• The consultant pharmacist's expanded role in nutrition management. 30 May 2009
• Providing care as a team. 30 May 2009
• The challenges to long-term care: a personal account. 30 May 2009
• Falls in the nursing home: a collaborative approach. 30 May 2009
• Preface. Long-term care. 30 May 2009
• Pain management in the nursing home. 30 May 2009
• Disparities in long-term healthcare. 30 May 2009
• The nursing workforce in long-term care. 30 May 2009
• A mapping of the evidence on integrated long term condition services. 29 Apr 2009
• Survivorship issues in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. 29 Apr 2009
• Is primary care a neglected piece of the jigsaw in ensuring optimal stroke care? Results of a national study. 27 Apr 2009
• Scheduled medications and falls in dementia patients utilizing a wander garden. 12 Apr 2009
• Reducing pressure ulcer prevalence rates in the long-term acute care setting. 30 Mar 2009

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Technical information about 'Long-Term Care'

Definition: Care over an extended period, usually for a chronic condition or disability, requiring periodic, intermittent, or continuous care.

Descriptor UI: D008134

Alternative terms: Long-Term Care; Care, Long-Term; Long Term Care;

Related Mesh Headings: Insurance, Long-Term Care;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; psychology;

Tree Number: E02.760.476; N02.421.585.476;

Online Note: use LONG-TERM CARE to search LONG TERM CARE 1968-91

History Note: 92; was LONG TERM CARE 1968-91

Technical Notes: NIM