Functional Disability and Nursing Resource Use Are Predictive of Antimicrobial Resistance in Nursing Homes
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Profiling disability within nursing homes
Background: a significant minority of older people live in residential care. While disability is often a major contributory factor, it may not be measured or managed adequately by health and social services. At present there is little information comparing levels of disability within nursing homes and the community, and no mechanisms for monitoring changes in this disability ratio longitudinall...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0002-8614
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.13353