This article focuses on medical aspects of the risk selection process for long term care insurance products. Our objective is to identify for medical directors and underwriters key underwriting considerations upon which to build a sound strategy. Section 1 reviews demographic, social and other factors contributing to the need for these products. This snapshot of the long term care context sets ...

BACKGROUND While there is a growing awareness of the importance of organizational context (or the work environment/setting) to successful knowledge translation, and successful knowledge translation to better patient, provider (staff), and system outcomes, little empirical evidence supports these assumptions. Further, little is known about the factors that enhance knowledge translation and bette...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between evidence-based practice (EBP) and job satisfaction among nurses working in long-term care facilities. Methods: The study used a descriptive cross-sectional design. A total of 146 nurses working in 6 long-term care facilities in South Korea self-reported their perception of EBP implementation, barriers to research utiliz...

BACKGROUND Prescription medication use, which is common among long-term care facility (LTCF) residents, is routinely used to describe quality of care and predict health outcomes. Data sources that capture medication information, which include surveys, medical charts, administrative health databases, and clinical assessment records, may not collect concordant information, which can result in com...

Abstract. The concept of open data has become the modern science meme, and major funding bodies publishers support data. On a daily basis, however, mandate frequently encounters technical obstacles, such as lack suitable format for sharing long-term preservation. Such issues are often community-specific best addressed through community-tailored solutions. In Quaternary sciences, luminescence da...