Black Patients With Mental Health Conditions More Likely Than Whites to End Up in Nursing Homes

Mental Health Treatment in Nursing Homes

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The likelihood ratio method [BG96] provides a tool for the calculation of hedge ratios and risk parameters with Monte Carlo calculations. In this article, we present the extension of existing likelihood ratio methods to multiple underlyings and to higher order sensitivities such as the crossderivatives on the underlyings, and how the method can be used in a displaced diffusion [Rub83] framework...

Relationship of Design and Architectural Factors of Nursing Homes With the Mental Health of Their Residents

Objectives Disregarding the quality of nursing homes can affect the mental health of older people living there. This study aimed to determine the relationship between the designing and architecture of nursing homes with the residents’ mental health. Methods & Materials This research was descriptive-correlational. With purposeful sampling, we selected 158 elderly residents of the nursing homes ...

Patients lost to care are more likely to be viremic than patients still in care.

TO THE EDITOR—The study by Aghokeng et al [1] found little difference in crosssectionally ascertained virological failure at 12 and 24 months among patients on first-line antiretroviral therapy (ART) across 7 countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia; however, significant country-level variations were observed, possibly reflecting programmatic weakness and poor adherence. Most ART prog...

Racial and ethnic differences in end-of-life costs: why do minorities cost more than whites?

BACKGROUND Racial and ethnic minorities generally receive fewer medical interventions than whites, but racial and ethnic patterns in Medicare expenditures and interventions may be quite different at life's end. METHODS Based on a random, stratified sample of Medicare decedents (N = 158 780) in 2001, we used regression to relate differences in age, sex, cause of death, total morbidity burden, ...