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Long-Term Care
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Definition of 'Long-Term Care'Care over an extended period, usually for a chronic condition or disability, requiring periodic, intermittent, or continuous care. Common names: Long-Term Care; Care, Long-Term; Long Term Care |
Saturday, November 21, 2009
The role of disability in explaining long-term care utilization.
30 Oct 2009 
OBJECTIVE: In view of aging populations, it is important to improve our understanding of the determination of long-term care (LTC) service use among the middle-aged and elderly population. We examined the likelihood of using 2 levels of LTC-homecare ... Read more...
14 Oct 2009 OBJECTIVES: To test the hypothesis that nurse led follow-up programmes are effective and cost effective in improving quality of life after discharge from intensive care. DESIGN: A pragmatic, non-blinded, multicentre, randomised controlled trial. ... Read more...
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...
Latest indexed articles for 'Long-Term Care'
These are the very latest articles for this heading:
- The role of disability in explaining long-term care utilization. 30 Oct 2009
- The PRaCTICaL study of nurse led, intensive care follow-up programmes for improving long term outcomes from critical illness: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial. 14 Oct 2009
- Supporting culture change: working toward smarter state nursing home regulation. 29 Sep 2009
- Seizure relapse and development of drug resistance following long-term seizure remission. 29 Sep 2009
- Prognosis of patients with COPD admitted to the ICU.
29 Sep 2009 - Long-term safety concerns with proton pump inhibitors. 29 Sep 2009
- California budget cuts fray the long-term care safety net. 29 Sep 2009
- Caring for cancer survivors: a survey of primary care physicians. 13 Sep 2009
- Clinical practice guidelines for the psychosocial care of cancer survivors: current status and future prospects. 13 Sep 2009
- Would a nursing home physician specialty resolve the workforce crisis in long-term care? 13 Sep 2009
- Would a nursing home physician specialty resolve the workforce crisis in long-term care? 13 Sep 2009
- Would a nursing home physician specialty resolve the workforce crisis in long-term care? 13 Sep 2009
- Would a nursing home physician specialty resolve the workforce crisis in long-term care? 13 Sep 2009
- Would a nursing home physician specialty resolve the workforce crisis in long-term care? 13 Sep 2009
- By the numbers. 25 largest post-acute-care companies. Ranked by 2008 net revenue, based on Modern Healthcare's 2009 Post-Acute-Care Survey. 12 Sep 2009
- A systematic review of the international published literature relating to quality of institutional care for people with longer term mental health problems. 5 Sep 2009
- Maintenance electroconvulsive therapy: implementing the STABLE algorithm. 30 Aug 2009
- Four years of successful maintenance electroconvulsive therapy. 30 Aug 2009
- Influenza in long-term care facilities: preventable, detectable, treatable. 30 Aug 2009
- Risk factors of scabies in psychiatric and long-term care hospitals: a nationwide mail-in survey in Japan. 30 Aug 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