Developing and testing a nursing home end -of -life care chart audit tool
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Developing and testing a nursing home end -of -life care chart audit tool
BACKGROUND Nursing home (NH) administrators need tools to measure the effectiveness of care delivered at the end of life so that they have objective data on which to evaluate current practices, and identify areas of resident care in need of improvement. METHODS A three-phase mixed methods study was used to develop and test an empirically derived chart audit tool aimed at assessing the care de...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Palliative Care
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1472-684X
DOI: 10.1186/s12904-018-0301-9