Yield of Blood Cultures Amongst Nursing Home Patients Admitted With Pneumonia to Acute Care Hospital

CHEST Journal ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 140 (4) ◽  
pp. 1066A
Author(s):  
Aditya Uppalapati ◽  
Vasudev Hejamadi
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Home ◽  
Acute Care ◽  
Acute Care Hospital ◽  
Blood Cultures ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Nursing Home Patients

Validation of the STRATIFY falls risk-assessment tool for acute-care hospital patients and nursing home residents: study protocol

2015 ◽  
Vol 71 (8) ◽  
pp. 1948-1957 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Aranda-Gallardo ◽  
Margarita Enriquez de Luna-Rodriguez ◽  
Jose Carlos Canca-Sanchez ◽  
Ana Belen Moya-Suarez ◽  
Jose Miguel Morales-Asencio
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Nursing Home ◽  
Acute Care ◽  
Study Protocol ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Nursing Home Residents ◽  
Acute Care Hospital ◽  
Risk Assessment Tool ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Hospital Patients

Duration of Stay and other Aspects of Nursing Home Use

1981 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 301-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leticia Vicente ◽  
James A. Wiley ◽  
R. Allen Carrington
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Home ◽  
Acute Care ◽  
Human Population ◽  
Acute Care Hospital ◽  
Residential Facility ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Alameda County ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
First Admission

In 1965, the Human Population Laboratory (California State Department of Health Services) conducted a survey of the non-institutionalized population of Alameda County. Subsequent checking of death records disclosed that 521 survey participants aged fifty-five years or over in 1965 had died by January, 1975. A follow-up in 1977–78 of nursing home experience among these decedents revealed that about two-fifths of those for whom information could be obtained (N = 455) had entered a nursing home at least once in the nine-year follow-up period. Further inquiry located 158 cases whose experience of institutionalization before their death could be reconstructed. Among these cases, only 22 per cent ever returned home or transferred to a residential facility after being institutionalized. Most persons died after the first admission, at the nursing home itself or at an acute care hospital to which they had been transferred shortly before death. Among the cases whose experience of institutionalization could be reconstructed, five out of ten spent less than three months, and six out of ten spent less than six months, as patients in nursing home(s). However, nearly 30 per cent of the 158 cases with reconstructed histories accumulated patient-days exceeding a year.

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