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Vulnerable populations at risk of potentially avoidable hospitalizations: the case of nursing home residents with Alzheimer's disease.
Mary W. Carter,Frank W. Porell +1 more
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Nursing home residents with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias are more likely to be hospitalized for certain ACS conditions, including gastroenteritis and kidney/urinary tract infections.Abstract:
This study explores whether nursing home residents with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) are affected differently by facility-level risk factors of ambulatory care-sensitive (ACS) c...read more
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Dementia in the acute hospital: prospective cohort study of prevalence and mortality.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the prevalence of dementia in older people undergoing emergency medical admission and its effect on outcomes and found that increasing numbers of people will die with dementia, many in the acute hospital.
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Predictors of Nursing Home Hospitalization A Review of the Literature
TL;DR: The association between the decision to hospitalize and factors related to the residents' welfare and preferences, the providers' attitudes, and the financial implications of hospitalization are reviewed.
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Nurse practitioners as an underutilized resource for health reform: evidence-based demonstrations of cost-effectiveness.
TL;DR: This paper combines economic analysis and reviews published literature to show how the goals of healthcare reform can be accomplished by allowing independently licensed nurse practitioners to provide their wide range of services directly to patients in a variety of clinical settings.
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Hospitalisation rates for ambulatory care sensitive conditions for persons with and without an intellectual disability--a population perspective.
TL;DR: The large discrepancy in rates of hospitalisation between persons with and without an ID is an indicator of inadequate primary care for this vulnerable population and decreasing the number of ambulatory care sensitive condition hospitalisations through specialised outpatient programmes for persons with an ID would potentially lead to better health, improved quality of life and cost savings.
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Reasons for hospital admissions in dementia patients in Birmingham, UK, during 2002-2007.
TL;DR: Dementia patients are frequently admitted as emergency cases, but dementia itself is often not the primary diagnosis, so earlier detection of the specific conditions mentioned above may reduce emergency hospital admissions amongst dementia patients.
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Preventable hospitalizations and access to health care
Andrew B. Bindman,Kevin Grumbach,Dennis Osmond,Miriam Komaromy,Karen Vranizan,Nicole Lurie,John Billings,Anita L. Stewart +7 more
TL;DR: Communities where people perceive poor access to medical care have higher rates of hospitalization for chronic diseases, and improving access to care is more likely than changing patients' propensity to seek health care or eliminating variation in physician practice style to reduce hospitalization rates for chronic conditions.
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Preventable hospitalizations and access to health care
Andrew B. Bindman,Andrew B. Bindman,Andrew B. Bindman,Kevin Grumbach,Kevin Grumbach,Kevin Grumbach,Dennis Osmond,Dennis Osmond,Dennis Osmond,Miriam Komaromy,Miriam Komaromy,Miriam Komaromy,Karen Vranizan,Karen Vranizan,Karen Vranizan,Nicole Lurie,Nicole Lurie,Nicole Lurie,John Billings +18 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined whether the higher hospital admission rates for chronic medical conditions such as asthma, hypertension, congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and diabetes in low-income communities resulted from community differences in access to care, prevalence of the diseases, propensity to seek care or physician admitting style.
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Access to Health Care in America
TL;DR: Using Indicators to Monitor National Objectives for Health Care and Developing Indicators of Access to Care: The Case for HIV Disease and Referral-Sensitive Surgeries is recommended.
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Recent findings on preventable hospitalizations
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Correlates and Management of Nonmalignant Pain in the Nursing Home
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