Nursing Home Medical Staff Organization: Correlates With Quality Indicators
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Nursing home medical staff organization: correlates with quality indicators.
OBJECTIVES Little is known about the relationship between how medical care is organized and delivered in nursing homes. Taking a lead from the acute care arena, we hypothesize that nursing home medical staff organization (NHMSO) is an important predictor of clinical outcomes in the nursing home. METHODS A total of 202 usable surveys from a 2-wave survey process using the Dillman Method were r...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1525-8610
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2010.06.004