Management of Verbally Disruptive Behaviors in Nursing Home Residents

Disruptive behaviors in Veterans Affairs nursing home residents: how different are residents with serious mental illness?

OBJECTIVES To determine the prevalence and correlates of behavior problems of residents of Veterans Affairs (VA) nursing homes and to compare residents with serious mental illness (SMI) with other resident groups. DESIGN This study combined cross-sectional resident assessments with administrative data for all residents in VA nursing homes. Multivariate ordinal logistic regression was used to ...

Nursing Home Residents

Pain management in nursing home residents with cancer.

OBJECTIVES To assess improvements in pain management of nursing home (NH) residents with cancer since the implementation of pain management quality indicators. DESIGN Cross-sectional. SETTING One thousand three hundred eighty-two U.S. NHs (N = 1,382). PARTICIPANTS Newly admitted, Medicare-eligible NH residents with cancer (N = 8,094). MEASUREMENTS Nationwide data on NH resident health f...

Repeat Prescribing Management Nursing Home Residents: Demands on Gps Nursing Home Residents: Demands on Gps Child Health Surveillance Motivational Consulting

Sir, I am not encouraged to give more intraarticular and peri-articular injections by the results of Kumar and Newman’s study (June Journal).1 While their results may be reassuring, they cannot be assumed to represent what might happen in general practice. Both authors are specialists and some of the injections not given by them personally were probably given by doctors with some specialist tra...

Nutritional Status and Related Factors in Elderly Nursing Home Residents

Introduction: A challenge for health care providers is that there will be a distinct rise globally in the number of elderly people aged 80 years and over. Malnutrition is a well-known problem among elderly people. The aim of this study was to determine nutritional status and its associated risk factors in elderly nursing home residents in Tehran, Iran.  Methods: The cross-sectional st...