Provision of Psychopharmacological Services in Nursing Homes
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Provision of psychopharmacological services in nursing homes.
We examined the psychopharmacological services provided within 3 months of nursing home (NH) admission to a whole population of newly admitted Florida NH residents 65 years and older (N = 947) for a 1-year period via secondary analyses of selected variables from Medicaid and the Online Survey and Certification and Reporting System. Within 3 months of admission, 12% received nonpsychopharmacolog...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1079-5014,1758-5368
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/gbp080