Pain and pharmacologic pain management in long-stay nursing home residents
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DOI: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000000887
Abstract: Abstract Previous studies estimate that >40% of long-stay nursing home (NH) residents experience persistent pain, with 20% of residents in pain receiving no analgesics. Strengthened NH surveyor guidance and improved pain measures on the Minimum… read more here.
Keywords: persistent pain; nursing home; prevalence; long stay ... See more keywords
Long‐Stay Nursing Facility Resident Transfers: Who Gets Admitted to the Hospital?
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DOI: 10.1111/jgs.16633
Abstract: The Optimizing Patient Transfers, Impacting Medical Quality, and Improving Symptoms: Transforming Institutional Care (OPTIMISTIC) project is a successful, multicomponent demonstration project to reduce potentially avoidable hospitalizations of long‐stay nursing facility residents. To continue to reduce… read more here.
Keywords: hospital; nursing facility; long stay; facility resident ... See more keywords